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“One of these days I’ll get the best seat in the house/It’s the measure of a man, of a man,” goes the jangly “Best Seat In The House,” while the narrator of “I’ve Got A Song” asserts, “At the end of the day, it’s the one thing they can’t take away: I’ve got this song.” The album’s final song, “Mother Mountain,” focuses on the belief that redemption and rebirth are always within reach. Yet Find A Light’s hard-luck characters are soldiering forward despite it all, and remain buoyed by optimism-and deep faith in themselves. “A lot of inspiration can be drawn from current events these days, and how complicated the world is.” “Inspiration comes from so many different places,” Starr says. “Flesh And Bone” explores the conundrum of temptation “Run Away From It All” is about seizing the day and trying to leave troubles behind and “Nobody Gives A Damn” cautions about letting external achievements such as an attractive partner or a hit song go to one’s head. I think everybody is hoping and looking for something better right now.”Īccordingly, Find A Light’s lyrics portray characters weighed down by the pressures of everyday life. “I thought, ‘What headspace is humanity in as a whole?’ That’s pretty hard to argue with that. “Most of our albums have been named either for a song on the album or a lyric, and this time I didn’t want to do that,” Starr says. The record sounds heavier than other albums in fact, Starr characterizes the churning, scorched-blues album opener, “Flesh And Bone,” as “maybe the heaviest song we’ve ever recorded.” The title has deep significance to the record’s overarching themes. Within Blackberry Smoke’s catalog, Find A Light is distinctive in several notable ways. I love the fact that our records are sort of a ride, with different types of songs and different vibes.” “My favorite albums through the years are built that way, too. “That’s one of my favorite things about Blackberry Smoke albums-there’s a lot of variety,” Starr says. Rich instrumental flourishes-keening fiddle, solemn organ and bar-band piano boogie-add further depth and resonance. Songs hew toward easygoing roots-rock (“Run Away From It All”) and Southern rock stomps (“The Crooked Kind”), as well as stripped-down acoustic numbers (“I’ve Got This Song”) and bruising alt-country (“Nobody Gives A Damn”).
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(For good measure, the latter also topped Billboard’s Americana/Folk album chart.)įind A Light, Blackberry Smoke’s sixth studio album, doubles down on diversity. This fluidity has paid off handsomely, in the form of two Billboard chart-topping country albums, 2015’s Holding All The Roses and 2016’s Like An Arrow.
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Since emerging from Atlanta in the early ‘00s, the quintet-vocalist/lead guitarist Charlie Starr, guitarist/vocalist Paul Jackson, bassist/vocalist Richard Turner, drummer Brit Turner and keyboardist Brandon Still - has become known for a singular sound indebted to classic rock, blues, country and folk. Pigeonholing Blackberry Smoke has never been easy.