"Got a caterpillar body and a butterfly brain..." today Clayton and Sean join us as we look at volume one of ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist JERRY CANTRELL's 2002 solo album DEGREDATION TRIP, an album he recorded while in a deep depression

Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 is a double album by Jerry Cantrell, released on November 26, 2002, through Roadrunner Records.[1] It is an expanded limited edition of Cantrell's Degradation Trip album, which was released five months earlier. All the songs were written long prior to the first release of Degradation Trip.[7] The title was taken from the song "Solitude", the fifth track from the album.[8] Roadrunner Records, uneasy toward the idea of a double album release, made Cantrell condense it,[9] but promised to eventually release all of his material.[7]

The track order of the expanded version, which differs from the first, is also presented in Cantrell's originally planned order.[10] Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin and then-Ozzy Osbourne/Black Label Society bassist Robert Trujillo contributed to Degradation Trip,[8] and would tour with Cantrell in support of it in 2001, before the album was released.