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The performance is undeniably a Southern rock revival, full of swampy guitar licks and Starr’s yelping vocals. Later that evening, Blackberry Smoke certainly look like winners, roaring through a loud and raucous set at the Ryman. “It also plays into that theme of when you win, what do you really win?” adds Turner. “And now the whole thing comes full circle because then debuts at Number One on the country charts. If those dudes were to do something fantastic and win something, it’d be, ‘How the hell did you do that?'” says Starr. (The front cover depicts a mule decorated via Photoshop in top hat and roses that Turner photographed in a hotel parking lot in New Orleans.) To personify that notion, the band enlisted two local Georgia eccentrics - Digger and Tim - to appear on the album’s back cover art. “We were walking through Berlin, Germany, to get ice cream - we’re so rock & roll,” says Starr, “and those lyrics started to come out, so I jotted them down on my phone. While Starr says the song wasn’t written about the band, it has since come to mirror their journey. It’s that dark horse spirit that permeates Holding All the Roses, produced by Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, AC/DC), and especially its title track. To come from nothing, we can really look at what we’ve accomplished and say, ‘We did that.'” “It really feels like we earned it, having a Number One album. Now on Rounder Records, Blackberry Smoke is back on solid ground. Steve Gorman said, ‘Hell, the Beatles couldn’t even make a label work.'” “I mean, he’s a busy guy, he can’t micromanage a record label. “God bless Zac, he’s our friend, but things fells apart,” Starr says. Released on Zac Brown’s Southern Ground Artists, the album broke the Top 10 on the Country Albums chart but suffered from a label staff stretched too thin. Though the band came dangerously close to doing just that with its last album, 2012’s underrated The Whippoorwill.
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I don’t feel like we’re sliding back,” says Turner. It’s a sign that the old-fashioned system of tireless touring behind an honest product still works. With next to no radio support, Blackberry Smoke have been building a loyal base on the road, so when Holding All the Roses hit stores, fans were ready to snatch it up. Whatever the reason for their country crossover, the Atlanta-based group is grateful for the success. It was Eighties rock production and it was an easy fit, so that may have had something to do with it.” A lot of people have said that rock & roll radio disappeared and became pop and rap, and the only thing similar to it was country music. It's just relentless.“I have another one that says ‘Country,'” he quips backstage, where he and Starr are decompressing after soundcheck. We're over the moon – it's a song that'll knock your head off. Track titles include Payback's A Bitch and Holding All The Roses, and Starr says of the latter number: "People are really going to be blown away by it. We recorded live a lot again and we tried a few different things some of it's top-secret but nothing that's so radically different. Available in 3 gorgeous colours, or traditional black vinyl for the purists, Blackberry Smoke's brand new album will come in a luxurious vinyl sleeve, which allows the beautiful new artwork to really shine!įollowing countless sold out shows around the US and Europe, two entries in the official UK album charts with breakthrough album "The Whippoorwill" and live CD/DVD "Leave A Scar", southern rock kings Blackberry Smoke return with their brand new studio album, "Holding All The Roses".Īs musically tight as ever, Atlanta's favourite sons have delivered another fine collection of perfectly crafted songs, and having recruited Grammy-winning producer Brendan O'Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, AC/DC), "Holding All The Roses" is already shaping up to be the must-have album of 2015!Ĭharlie Starr - "It's not a huge departure – there's really big rock'n'roll songs and some laid-back moments as well.