Steve Van Zandt decided the band The Jellybricks is so cool that he signed it to his label.

The Disciples of Soul leader, E Street Band member, former “Sopranos” star and host of the syndicated radio show “Little Steven’s Underground Garage” picked the Jellybricks’ “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” as the “Coolest Song in the World” one week in 2012 and picked the band’s “All About the Weekend” for the same honor in 2014.

Now “Some Kind of Lucky,” the band’s seventh album, will be released on Oct. 4 on Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool label. Boardman native Larry Kennedy said the band hopes to have some advance copies available when it plays Cedars West End on Saturday.

Kennedy has lived in Harrisburg, Pa., where the band was formed, longer than he did in the Mahoning Valley, but he said any of his friends will tell you, “Youngstown is never far from my lips.”

The new record is filled with local connections. The recording sessions started at Youngstown’s Ampreon Recorder with Frank Silver and Pete Drivere of The Infidels.

“The Infidels were the band that the put the idea in my head that I need not be from anywhere but Youngstown, to play anywhere but at Cedars, to be a great rock ‘n’ roll band,” Kennedy said. “They really planted a lot of ideas and possibilities in my mind. I don’t know how I would have become The Jellybricks without The Beatles, but I also don’t know how there would have been a Jellybricks without the Infidels.”

Kennedy also is thrilled that The 8 Balls, another band from that 1980s Cedars Lounge era, will be opening for The Jellybricks on Saturday.

“I’m personally stoked to be playing on a bill with the 8 Balls,” he said. “They’re living legends.”

Other sessions were recorded at Obscura Sound in Baltimore with Scott Ensign, who played in the ’90s Youngstown rock act ivet.

It was around this time that Wicked Cool approached the band — Kennedy, guitar and vocals; Garrick Chow, bass and vocals; Bryce Connor, guitar and vocals; and Tom Kristich, drums and vocals — about recording a single for the label. Kennedy said the initial idea was to have an original on the A side and a Beatles’ cover on the B side, but the label ultimately opted for two originals, the Big Star-influenced “Brooklyn” and the rocker “D.O.A.”

All four members of the Jellybricks are songwriters, but “Brooklyn” is the first song to be credited to all four members.

“Someone asked us to try an experiment writing a song while mobile,” Kennedy said. “We were stuck in a traffic jam in route to a show in Brooklyn (and decided to try the experiment). We started writing a song describing the situation we were in with everyone contributing lyric notes and melody ideas in real time … It was huge honor for the four of us when Steve chose it for the A side.”

The single was recorded at Van Zandt’s studio with Geoff Sanoff, who’s worked with Bruce Springsteen, Fountains of Wayne and Dashboard Confessional.

The Jellybricks has received its share of acclaim for its past six albums, and Kennedy said some critics have written that the band could have had the same success as Fountains of Wayne, it just never had its “Stacy’s Mom” breakthrough single. Kennedy said the band considered it a serendipitous sign when it learned that Sanoff was the engineer on “Stacy’s Mom.”

“Geoff Sanoff took all of the work we did in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, married it together with the single recorded in New York, into ‘Some Kind of Lucky,'” Kennedy said.

The support of Wicked Cool will allow for more extensive touring, including the Jellybricks’ first West Coast show in more than a decade. But the Jellybricks has been a band for 23 years (with the same lineup for 20 years). “Stacy’s Mom” joking aside, Kennedy doesn’t talk like someone with stars and dollar signs in his eyes now that the band has a label’s backing.

“Being in a band for this length of time, none of us have any preconceived ideas about what this Wicked Cool thing needs to be. We’re gratified Steve Van Zandt likes our music. Our aim is to just continue to produce great work to the best of our ability. We love to perform, we love to travel. We’re not on some mission to take over the world.”