Blackberry Smoke The Whippoorwill (CD, Earache Records, 2013) ****
Blackberry Smoke Leave A Scar Live - North Carolina (CD, Earache Records, 2014) ****
Blackberry Smoke Holding All The Roses (CD, Earache Records, 2015) ****
Blackberry Smoke Find A Light (CD, Earache Records, 2018) ****
Genre: Southern Rock
Places I remember: HMV (Oxford St., East Croyden)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: One Horse Town
Gear costume: Holding All The Roses, Pretty Little Lie, I'll Keep Ramblin'
Active compensatory factors: I've decided to hoover up all the remaining* albums on CD by these southern boys (from Atlanta) as they pretty much cover the same ground - good ole southern rock'n'countryroll.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: One Horse Town
Gear costume: Holding All The Roses, Pretty Little Lie, I'll Keep Ramblin'
Active compensatory factors: I've decided to hoover up all the remaining* albums on CD by these southern boys (from Atlanta) as they pretty much cover the same ground - good ole southern rock'n'countryroll.
That's possibly the only quibble I've got. Charlie Starr is the band's songwriter/vocalist and if anything, the band needs a different look at times.
That's only a minor quibble though - Charlie is the real deal; he writes brilliant songs and his singing is great.
The highlights are liberally sprinkled through the studio albums (the band's third, fourth, and sixth) and Leave A Scar Live - North Carolina is a live double album and DVD package that sums up the band's early years well.
Where do they all belong? *I've already written about their 2016 album Like An Arrow - another 4 starr effort - the bar is consistently set high, and their latest studio album (number 7) is coming to Goo Goo when I get to the vinyl collection again.
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