Blackberry Smoke

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Blackberry Smoke
Blackberry Smoke in 2012.jpg
General information
origin Atlanta , Georgia , USA
Genre (s) Southern rock , hard rock , country rock
founding 2000
Website www.blackberrysmoke.com
Current occupation
Charlie Starr
guitar
 Paul Jackson
Brandon Still
Richard Turner
Brit Turner

Blackberry Smoke is an American Southern rock - band from Atlanta , Georgia .

history

Blackberry Smoke was founded as a quartet in Atlanta in 2000, which expanded into a quintet in 2009 with the entry of a permanent keyboardist.

The first two albums, released in 2003 and 2009, are considered only partially successful.

In Europe, the band has been signed to the English label Earache Records , which is particularly known for extreme metal variants, since their third album The Whippoorwill .

The band recorded their fourth album, Holding All the Roses , within two weeks. In the US it reached number one on the Billboard country charts.

The band plays an average of 250 concerts a year.

style

Blackberry Smoke plays Southern Rock in the field of tension between “cowboy kitsch” and “rocky” and is a “radio-friendly, country-heavy variant of Black Stone Cherry , but which is still not completely softened.” In addition, the band gets along “ without redneck malice”.

On the fifth album, in addition to country and rock , “elements from gospel , blues , pop ” can be heard in the sound. On "Like an Arrow", published in 2016, the style developed in the direction of a quieter sound with elements of Americana , funk and soul .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2003 Bad luck ain't no crime - - - - -
BamaJam Records
2009 Little Piece of Dixie - - - - -
BamaJam Records
2012 The Whippoorwill DE97 (1 week)
DE 		AT-AT CH-CH UK30 (2 weeks)
UK 		US40 (2 weeks)
US
2014 Leave a Scar, Live: North Carolina DE49 (1 week)
DE 		AT-AT CH-CH UK35 (1 week)
UK 		US128 (1 week)
US
2015 Holding All the Roses DE32 (1 week)
DE 		AT52 (1 week)
AT 		CH24 (1 week)
CH 		UK17 (2 weeks)
UK 		US29 (2 weeks)
US
Earache Records
2016 Like an Arrow DE31 (1 week)
DE 		AT-AT CH44 (1 week)
CH 		UK8 (1 week)
UK 		US12 (2 weeks)
US
Earache Records
2018 Find a light DE21 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT25 (1 week)
AT 		CH25 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK12 (1 week)
UK 		US31 (1 week)
US
Earache Records

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rob Hughes: Rock in Crisis (Part 12): Blackberry Smoke. In: classicrock.net. November 9, 2014, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Portrait of a musician - The American band Blackberry Smoke. In: phonostar.de. February 8, 2015, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Pascal: Interview with Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke). In: neckbreaker.de. March 6, 2015, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  4. ^ Joseph Hudak: Blackberry Smoke on Their Strange Country Success. In: rollingstone.com. April 16, 2015, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Dirk: Album Review: Blackberry Smoke - "Like An Arrow". In: rsd-radio.com. October 17, 2016, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Timon Menge [sludgeworm]: CD Review: Blackberry Smoke - Holding All The Roses. (No longer available online.) In: metalnews.de. February 6, 2015, archived from the original on November 19, 2016 ; Retrieved November 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metalnews.de
  7. ^ Andreas Schiffmann: Blackberry Smoke: The Whippoorwill (review / criticism). In: musikreviews.de. February 13, 2014, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Chris Franzkowiak: Blackberry Smoke - Like an Arrow. In: CountryMusicNews.de. October 13, 2016, accessed November 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US [1]