Genre: American pop/rock
Places I remember: HMV East Croydon
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Waiting For The Thunder (lead track and first single off the album)
Gear costume: Let It Burn
Active compensatory factors: My first taste of Blackberry Smoke was Later...with Jools Holland and the song Let It Burn.
Being a sucker for down home southern flavoured rock, I was captivated from the off.
There are hints of The Allman Brothers, Zac Brown Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd along the way but only that - hints. There are enough distinctive edges to make Blackberry Smoke stand alone (love the name too - very evocative and rootsy).
Bottom line: Charlie Starr has one of rock's great voices and he gets mean support from his bros.
Where do they all belong? This was also my first purchase from HMV, well - this, and three other Blackberry Smoke albums. For some reason none of them are available in NZ, so I splurged!
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