Steven Tyler's legendary pipes singing a new tune

Steven Tyler is not only going solo, he's going country. The rock icon's first country music single, "Love is Your Name," comes out Wednesday. His new sound may be a little different, but his legendary pipes are making some great music, reports "Entertainment Tonight" host Nancy O'Dell.

Tyler said he defines his rock and roll as "exotic, neurotic, you got it" and country as "truth, vermouth, and one lost tooth."

Tyler's primal screams are his signature "rock and rage" all at the same time.

He thinks his new sound will attract new fans while maintaining those that love Aerosmith.

"They love that big-lip lead singer guy in the band and you know they're going to follow that guy that sings for them," Tyler said.

For more than 40 years, Aerosmith has reigned as one America's most successful rock bands, selling more than 150 million albums. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Aerosmith sang "Dream On" at a benefit concert for Boston Strong and their signature song began to inspire the devastated city.

"As soon I as worked those parts out with their musical choral director at my house, and we sat and I heard them sing for the first time I knew why I wrote 'Dream On,'" he said. "It was without the band, and it was just me and Joe and his guitar wailing the way it did and them singing. It was angelic and it meant so much more than it ever had before. A magic moment."

Another magic moment for Tyler's life happened this past February, when his daughter Liv gave birth to his second grandchild.

"So I'm in Nashville getting ready to write with these bunch of guys and I get a phone call from Mia, my daughter Mia, 'Liv's is in the hospital, we're in the hospital, you've got to get up here quick,'" he said. "We go up there not 10 minutes before she had the baby. I'm up here talking to Liv here, and Mia's down there dealing with the other end, and baby pops out puts her on her tummy and I cut the cord and tied the knot."

Tyler said it was "just as precious as it gets."

For the rock legend, giving birth to new music at the age of 67, is filling him with wonder.

"When you write a song it's a complete little guy or girl, and the song is a complete thing, that someone somewhere is going to be singing for the rest of their life and the joy I get from that," Tyler said.

The full interview airs Wednesday night on "Entertainment Tonight."