madshadows Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Been listening to Blackberry Smoke a lot via YouTube and really liking them, hoping to buy some of their music later this month anyone else like 'em ? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lEWTEk3jg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lEWTEk3jg[/url] John Quote
White Cloud Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Yes. Seen them live twice and they were fabulous. Brilliant southern rock band. Quote
BobVbass Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Yes loved them for a few years now, have all their albums, little piece of Dixie is fantastic. Holding all the roses is great too. There's a great version of I ain't got the blues on you tube as well, in the backyard Quote
machinehead Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Great songwriters, players and arrangers - a little cut above most other southern rock bands. Frank Quote
thebrig Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Our band has [i]Six Ways To Sunday[/i] and [i]Pretty Little Lie[/i] in our set list. Quote
ezbass Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Planet Rock introduced them to me and I like them very much, their unashamed country leanings coming through the full on Southern Rock. Quote
Muzz Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 One of the best live bands I've ever seen...just sublime. Quote
CHW Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Had a Spotify session with them. Great stuff but I did find it a bit samey after a while Quote
Mykesbass Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 Thanks for that, love the live Constant Sorrow, will have a closer listen to the albums. Quote
Bassnut62 Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 Yup, great band - seen them live twice including tiny venue in Nottingham a few years ago....absolutely brillinat live band....closest I'll ever get to feeling what it must have been like to see/hear The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd in their prime. Tho BSmoke are neither of those bands, they just share common roots. Quote
thebrig Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 [quote name='Bassnut62' timestamp='1427976044' post='2736538'] Yup, great band - seen them live twice including tiny venue in Nottingham a few years ago....absolutely brillinat live band....closest I'll ever get to feeling what it must have been like to see/hear The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd in their prime. Tho BSmoke are neither of those bands, they just share common roots. [/quote]I was lucky enough to see Lynyrd Skynyrd at Knebworth, the Stones topped the bill, and the lineup included, 10cc, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Hot Tuna, Don Harrison Band to name but a few, great music, the temperature was well in eighties, hey, those were the days! Quote
The Admiral Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 [quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1427983029' post='2736676'] I was lucky enough to see Lynyrd Skynyrd at Knebworth, the Stones topped the bill, and the lineup included, 10cc, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Hot Tuna, Don Harrison Band to name but a few, great music, the temperature was well in eighties, hey, those were the days! [/quote] The summer of 1976 - an absolute roaster. I remember watching The Old Grey Whistle Test review of the decade on New Years eve 79, and they showed LS playing Freebird - amazing band, and back in the days when you had to have a 100 foot lead to be a real player : none of your radio pack nonsense. http://youtu.be/UGKIX2_ViF8 As to Blackberry Smoke - great band, with brilliantly crafted and clever songs. I'd love to catch them live. Quote
Japhet Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 Have 'Shakin' hands with the Holy Ghost' in our set. Quote
RichValentine Posted April 8, 2015 Posted April 8, 2015 After spending a fair amount of time in Vegas and listening to "The Bull" radio station which pretty much plays this stuff constantly I've found southern rock growing on me a lot... Good guitar and quite catchy songs. This is the first time I've heard of them but quite enjoying it... beats the normal southern song writing about either; trucks, girls, drinking. Black Stone Cherry are good as well! Quote
BobVbass Posted April 8, 2015 Posted April 8, 2015 [quote][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Black Stone Cherry are good as well! [/font][/color][/quote] yes - a bit more mainstream rock rather than Southern Rock. On the black theme though Blackfoot did some cracking southern rock in the 80's - Ricky Medlocke was a founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd and is playing back with them again now - LS's God and Guns is a great album too while I'm prattling on... Quote
JimBobTTD Posted April 8, 2015 Posted April 8, 2015 I was on a flight with them a few months ago (Stockholm to Amsterdam; they were changing planes there) and they were all incredibly nice to each other, the airline crew and their fellow passengers. I happen to like their music, too! Quote
blue Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 Black Berry Smoke are at SummerFest this year I will check them out. blue Quote
The Admiral Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 (edited) [quote name='BobVbass' timestamp='1428481702' post='2741599'] yes - a bit more mainstream rock rather than Southern Rock. On the black theme though Blackfoot did some cracking southern rock in the 80's - Ricky Medlocke was a founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd and is playing back with them again now - LS's God and Guns is a great album too while I'm prattling on... [/quote] Blackfoot.... Yes! Fantastic band - hugely underrated, and the Marauder album was the soundtrack to my summer in 1981. Cruising around in the 1.3 purple Metallic Morris Marina GT, with the cassette player going full tilt, and the windows down. Youth is wasted on the young...... Never saw them live, but any drummer whose nickname is 'Thunderfoot' is worth checking out. Edited April 11, 2015 by The Admiral Quote
Skybone Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 And there was me thinking it was the new mobile phone handset from RIM..... Quote
BobVbass Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 [quote]Never saw them live, but any drummer whose nickname is 'Thunderfoot' is worth checking out. [/quote] Sadly Jackson Spires passed away a few years back, brain embolism after a gig Greg T Walker did some great bass lines though - they're live album is truly great as well Quote
The Admiral Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 [quote name='BobVbass' timestamp='1428866800' post='2745495'] Sadly Jackson Spires passed away a few years back, brain embolism after a gig Greg T Walker did some great bass lines though - they're live album is truly great as well [/quote] That's very sad re Mr Spires. What is it with drummers and health issues? Agree regarding Greg T Walker, and is it 'Highway Song', the live album? I think I have it on vinyl..... Must dig it out. Quote
BobVbass Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) Yes Highway Song Live it's called, great album They kind of lost their way after that when their second guitarist Charlie Hagrett left, the next album Vertical Smiles was not great. Ricky Medlocke did a mostly solo album under the Blackfoot name in the late nineties called After the Reign that was ok. Apparently a couple of years back he tried to reboot the band with all new young members ( he wasn't even in it!) unsurprisingly it sank like a stone Edited April 13, 2015 by BobVbass Quote
madshadows Posted June 17, 2015 Author Posted June 17, 2015 Nice little acoustic set from Blackberry Smoke [url="http://gardenandgun.com/media/back-porch-session-blackberry-smoke"]http://gardenandgun.com/media/back-porch-session-blackberry-smoke[/url] John Quote
KevB Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 Got a couple of their albums, keep meaning to catch them live but not had chance yet. Got that Allmans/Black Crowes vibe going on in places. Quote
stevelee Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 I really like this band and would love to see them live. I felt like I had heared almost every track on the latest album before (but in a good way if that makes sense lol) Quote
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