So Alter Bridge ended its tour and Kennedy started writing songs for his solo album, “The Ides of March,” which was released in 2021. “We knew that something was out there, a virus, but we had no idea that we were about to be shut down,” Kennedy said. However, within two weeks of the date at the Knitting Factory, Kennedy was back at his South Hill home at the start of a long lockdown. “We were very much looking forward to all the dates we had since we were so excited about showcasing ‘Walk the Sky.’” “We had so much ahead of us,” Kennedy said while calling from Houston.
The hard rock group was supporting its latest album, “Walk the Sky” with a jaunt that ran through spring of 2020. After performing in front of an enthusiastic capacity crowd at the Knitting Factory in February 2020, Alter Bridge vocalist-guitarist Myles Kennedy was thinking about the back end of his band’s ill-fated tour.
