The past few years have been busy for Jerry Cantrell. The Alice in Chains guitarist has been on the road in support of his 2024 solo album, I Want Blood. On this run, he has headlined, opened for Bush, and performed at festivals worldwide. Sitting backstage at Corona Capital festival in Mexico City, the final show on his year-plus trek on the road, Cantrell isn’t necessarily in a reflective mood (after all, in mere minutes, his beloved Seattle Seahawks are about to take on the Los Angeles Rams in a clash of NFC West titans. So, his focus is on that and his set). Nonetheless, he appreciates where his musical journey has taken him.

“As my sister [Heart guitarist] Nancy Wilson said to me the other day, ‘I don’t have any other skills,'” Cantrell jokes.

Yet, here he is, nearly 35 years after

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