Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale on Playing Ozzy Osbourne’s Final Concert

Halestorm, who just released their new album Everest, with producer Dave Cobb, performed their Grammy-winning song “Love Bites (So Do I)” and “Rain Your Blood on Me,” along with a cover of Osbourne’s solo hit “Perry Mason” at Back to the Beginning. Hale says she was moved to witness all the women in the audience.

“Looking out at all of these girls, and all of these girls who love heavy metal and rock music the same way I do, and you see so many of them relieved that there’s somebody there — ‘OK, just like me, this is great,’” she says.

On this week’s Nashville Now, Hale and Halestorm guitarist Joe Hottinger breaks down Nashville’s vital rock scene, dissect the making of Everest, and makes at least one Spinal Tap reference. Check out the full episode below.

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