Steve Vai has issued the following:

Virtuoso guitarist Steve Vai will release two new Naked Tracks albums on June 6, 2013. Volume six features selections from “Where The Wild Things Are” and “Sound Theories” while volume seven includes all the songs from his latest critically acclaimed, solo release, “The Story of Light.” Naked Tracks volumes six and seven, which are available to purchase at vai.com physically or through any digital retailer, are the first new releases in this unique series of play-along CDs since 2008.

Designed to give fans an outlet to jam along to his songs backed by a band, Vai does a mix of specific tracks without the lead guitar part when recording his albums. As he explains, “The Naked Tracks CDs are the exact tracks from my solo releases without the lead guitar, so you can play, improvise, shred, rap, whatever, on top of the recordings to make it your own.”

“One way to play along with these tracks is to learn the original guitar parts that are on the album versions of the songs, but I would encourage you to take a more active role in using these tracks as a bed to lay your own creative interpretation over,” says Vai. “There are really no rules. So sit back, flip on a naked track and dress it up with your own artistic musical apparel.”

CD1 Volume VI
Now We Run – WTWTA
Angel Food – WTWTA
Gary 7 – WTWTA
Gentle Ways – Sound Theories
Answers – Sound Theories
The Murder – Sound Theories
The Attitude Song – Sound Theories
Salamanders In The Sun – Sound Theories
For The Love of God – Sound Theories
Without Me – Vai Tunes
Speed – Vai Tunes
Blues for Dust – Vai Tunes

CD 2 Volume VII (The Story of Light: Real Illusions of a…)
The Story of Light
Velorum
John the Revelator
The Book of the Seven Seals
Creamsicle Sunset
Gravity Storm
Mullach a’ tSi
The Moon and I
Weeping China Doll
Racing The World
Sunshine Electric Raindrops

For more information about Naked Tracks, visit the Naked Tracks mini site