The duo first collaborated in 1997 on the Jackyl song “Locked and Loaded,” an electrified AC/DC-like rocker on which Dupree and...Before he knew it, he was in the studio with his son Nigel and Jackyl guitarist Roman Glick, recording an album’s worth of material

Linklater was against it from the moment he first heard Jackyl....He wrote in a memo: “Jackyl doesn't qualify, they're not in the same ballpark or anywhere near.