BUCKCHERRY ANNOUNCES PLANS TO CELEBRATE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF "15" ALBUM

Buckcherry has announced plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the biggest selling album.

A deluxe edition of "15" will be released Jan. 17, 2025 through Endurance Record Group on physical formats - CD and vinyl - in addition to digital platforms.

The CD version will feature seven bonus tracks, including songs previously only available on iTunes or in Japan and and newly recorded acoustic versions of "Crazy Bitch," "Onset," and "Sunshine."

The 2-LP edition will feature those bonus tracks in addition to acoustic versions of "Sorry" and "Brooklyn."

The album can be preordered here: www.earache.com/buckcherry

The band will also play the album in it entirety during all tour dates during 2025.

In July of 2016, Keith Nelson - a founding member of Buckcherry - talked about the band's earlier years and the unexpected success of the "15" with www.thedeadline.net following a show at Manchester Music Hall in Lexington, Ky.

The guitarist left the band in 2017.

Here is an except of the original story:

The airwaves of rock radio stations across the country in the mid-1990s were dominated by a sound that was dark, deep and distorted.

The grunge movement had swept out of the Pacific Northwest and become the biggest force in the music industry.

As flannel-clad bands with serious thoughts about social and political topics hit the top of the charts, the good-time party rock that had been so widely popular for most of the previous two decades quickly became a tired, worn-out joke.

Rock music wasn’t fun anymore.

And it wasn’t supposed to be.

Keith Nelson and Josh Todd, however, really didn’t care.

They met in 1996 in Southern California and became the driving force behind a band that would help bring back an old-school, down and dirty rock vibe to a mainstream audience.

“That’s the beauty of why we got together in the first place,” Nelson said. “We realized pretty early on that we didn’t fit in with what was the current music. But, we didn’t give a fuck. We just wanted to do what we wanted to do and sticking to our guns has been really important to us.”

Buckcherry stormed on to the scene three years later (1999), sending out a tattooed, leather-laiden shockwave that was louder, sleazier and more raw than almost anything else at the time.

The first single off their self-titled debut was a hard-driving song about Todd’s first experience with cocaine and the album certainly sounded much more like Motley Crue or Motorhead than Mother Love Bone or Mudhoney.

“There was a time when people were saying that rock is dead,” Nelson said. “I just never bought into that. To me, Rock N Roll is like blue jeans. It may not be the most hip thing in fashion, but it never goes out of style and everyone wears jeans, man. We will just outlast them all.”

Buckcherry survived, but not without some difficulties along the way.

The band’s debut album went gold in both the United States and Canada.

The follow-up, Time Bomb, was released in 2001 and did not receive a favorable reception from critics or fans. The turmoil caused by that lack of success led to the disintegration of the band.

Four years later, Nelson (guitar) and Todd (vocals), decided to re-form Buckcherry with a different lineup.

Joined by Stevie D (guitar), Xavier Muriel (drums) and Jimmy Ashhurst (bass), the band signed a deal with a Japanese label and recorded their third studio album — 15 — in just 15 days in Hollywood.

The record wasn’t released in North America until the spring of 2006, but went on to become the biggest commercial success of their career, selling more than a million copies.

“We just wanted to put the record out and maybe be able to tour a couple of months out of the year. We didn’t have high expectations,” Nelson said of 15. “We are all working day jobs in L.A. We were very humble.”

Much of the unexpected success of 15 revolved around a pair of hit singles, a ballad, Sorry, and the tune that has become the band’s signature, Crazy B****.

Despite its explicit title and even more explicit lyrics, the raunchy track cracked the Billboard Hot 100 and was even nominated for a Grammy Award.

The song has become a favorite of female fans and remains a highlight of the band’s high-energy live performances.

“It certainly has out-performed anything we ever anticipated,” Nelson said. “We almost didn’t put that song on the record and to be standing here 10 years later talking about it is pretty amazing.”