Classic Rock
Flatiron Recordings · 13 November 2026
Twenty-three years after “IV”, Zebra are back with a studio album. “Zebra V” came out on 13 November through Flatiron Recordings, on CD, vinyl and cassette as well as digitally. It’s eleven songs and around forty-five minutes, and it’s the same trio that founded the band in New Orleans in 1975: Randy Jackson, Felix Hanemann and Guy Gelso. On Atlantic, they’d released “Zebra” (1983), produced by Jack Douglas, “No Tellin’ Lies” (1984) and “3.V” (1986).
Randy Jackson is credited with the music on every song, alone or with others. He wrote “Walk With You”, the single that reached streaming services on 16 October, with Paul Stanley; “I’ll Be There Beside You” with Dave “Snake” Sabo and Rachel Bolan; “All Your Love” with Mark Mangold; and “Love, Sex” with guitarist Mark Hitt, who also plays on it. Two of the lyrics are poems by Edgar Allan Poe: “The Conqueror Worm” and “Eulalie”, which closes the album.
The other five are “Dog Day Night”, the opener, “She’s Waiting For You”, “Direction”, “Louisiana Way” and “The Last Time”, all written by Jackson alone.
Text by Enric Vilaplana