Tuesday Tunes: Spotlight on Blackberry Smoke

If you’re a fan of the sleazy, swaggery Southern blues-rock supplied by the Black Crowes 20 years ago, you’ll find the band’s kindred spirits in Blackberry Smoke.  The Atlanta quintet is the real deal and display their maturation from bar band to ready-for-prime-time arena fillers on “The Whippoorwill,” their third album and first on Zac Brown’s Southern Ground label.  While there are shades of Cinderella’s “Gypsy Road” in the riffs that open the album lead track, “Six Ways to Sunday,” the guys quickly dive into a piano boogie backdrop played against serrated guitar chords.  Throughout… >>

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