The Cars to Release New Music With Ric Ocasek Vocals

Because “ Now and Then ” can’t have all of the fun, the three surviving members of the Cars have spent several years recording and fine-tuning “more than two dozen songs” that were in Ric Ocasek’s vault when he died in 2019 . The songs, according to Bill Janovitz’s new book, The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told , come from several decades of Ocasek’s career and could take the form of a new Cars album. Keyboardist Greg Hawkes, guitarist Elliot Easton , and drummer David Robinson have all contributed to the songs, which were entrusted to Hawkes from a close friend of Ocasek’s.

“Some sound more like classic Cars than others,” Janovitz writes. One track, “Can’t Stop the Rain,” was written around the Candy-O sessions and discarded, while another, the ballad “I Just Can’t Say,” predate