Rolling Stone- Foo Fighters Sonic Highways -http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/foo-fighters-sonic-highways-20141111 -Doyle, P. (2014, November 14). Foo Fighters Sonic Highways. Retrieved January 29, 2015. - Dave Grohl, Nirvana's former drummer, headed back into a Seattle studio to record. The album is called "Sonic Highways" which is pretty much perfect for the concept that the album was trying to attain. Basically Dave and the boys traveled to major citys across the country writing songs relating to each experience across the country. Grohl described the album as a "love letter to the history of American Music." Despite the intense concept the band still incorporates many of their well know attributes such as the same Monster guitar crunch, crescendos, and hard bridges found in albums past. IMPORTANT QUOTES! "This time, he's built the concept of his 2013 documentary, Sound City – in which he brought heroes from Stevie Nicks to Tom Petty back to the L.A. studio where they made some of their most classic LPs – into a cross-country road trip of an album" "During the past year, Grohl traveled to eight great American cities with an HBO crew, interviewing key figures ranging from punk icon Ian Mackaye in D.C. to Willie Nelson in Austin, and soaking up inspiration for Sonic Highways" "These songs are some of the band's most ambitious moments yet. The closer, "I Am a River," grows from sprawling to self-righteous over seven minutes, with Grohl getting emotional on top of an orchestra." Dave Grohl is a genius and anyone who thinks otherwise can shove it! 20 years ago he was a drummer in a little band, you may have heard of , by the name of Nirvana! Find me another instance in music history where someone has done what Mr. grohl has done. He basically went to 8 major cities and recorded a song based off each visit and from information gathered through intense research with legendary American musicians such as Tom Petty and good ole Willie Nelson(im sure they shared a nice doobie;)) The reason I think its genius is because he took some many different aspects in music from each of these 8 American cities and incorporated it into a collective album while still staying true too the FOO!