It is a welcome respite as Blackberry Smoke casts aside all doubts as to their versatility as a unit. These two tracks provide a break in the action for the listener while the band seemingly catches their collective breath from the bombast of the album’s first third. Keeping the record interesting throughout, “Woman in the Moon” and “Too High” are a departure from the gritty Country Rock sound as the band mixes in some atmospheric organs on the former, and lays down a mid-tempo acoustic melody paired with only drums on the latter. Here the band plays to their strength, and executes flawlessly. “Rock And Roll Again” finds Blackberry Smoke delving into country boogie at a high level with a down and dirty groove, a virtually all-vocal break, fuzzy solos, and pounding pianos.
Here the band takes on the age-old topic of unrequited love and delivers a pop-perfect number that would fit right in on numerous radio formats.
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Mid-tempo rocker “Living in the Song” is a crisp jaunt reminiscent of Tom Petty or The Smithereens with mellow, jangly guitars, and plaintive lyrics about love as Starr sings, “It’s like livin’ in the words of a song/I’ve been runnin’ from the hurt too long…/Tell me that the darkest hour’s just before the dawn/Whoever said that never spent so many nights alone…/I don’t know how to say I was wrong/All I know is how to be gone”. It is no wonder the band chose this for the album title as it manages to, in the course of a shade over three minutes, prominently display the group’s varied influences, and their uncanny ability to play all exceptionally well. In an interesting turn, the Bluegrass riff is then played on guitar, then back to acoustic, and finally a call and response on acoustic guitar and fiddle collapses into a ripping electric guitar solo. The lead quickly dissolves into breakneck drumming, hand claps, and another country-fried riff on electric guitar. Title track, “Holding All the Roses,” takes the listener in a completely different direction with a Bluegrass inspired lead on acoustic guitar. Echoing the best of upbeat ’70s Country Rock, harmonies dominate the vocal landscape, and an aggressive Honky-Tonk guitar solo punctuates the peppy melody. Opener “Let Me Help You (Find the Door)” punches the listener in the gut with a classic Country Rock riff on electric guitar coupled with crisp drumming from Turner. Now in 2015, the band unleash their fourth studio album, Holding All the Roses, via new label Rounder Records. Gaining notoriety opening for the likes of the aforementioned Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, and Country legend George Jones, Blackberry Smoke continue to rise in popularity and received rave success with 2012 album The Whippoorwill. Formed in 2000, the band features Charlie Starr (guitars/vocals), Paul Jackson (guitars/vocals), Richard Turner (bass/vocals), Brandon Still (keyboards), and Brit Turner (drums).
38 Special, and the like while nimbly sprinkling in some R&B, Honky-Tonk, and even a little Bluegrass. Atlanta Georgia’s Blackberry Smoke is a five piece Country Rock band that successfully incorporates the sound of their Classic Rock forefathers Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet.
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