blackberry smoke holding all the roses solo tab

The 3 piece band race through a short set of original material, dominated by Keylock's searing guitar. In addition to the stalls it has 2 balcony levels (to assist short people like myself, who want to actually see the band) and has a capacity of around 1,200, or so I`m told.īefore the headliners take to the stage we are treated to an appearance from up and coming blues rock starlet Aaron Keylock, which warms the audience up nicely. The 'Institute' in Birmingham turns out to be what I have always known as 'Digbeth Civic Hall', but time waits for no man so I need to get used to its current name. This is their second tour here this year and while they are promoting their recent live release 'Leave a Scar - Live', their set is dominated by material from their most recent studio CD. Its the last night of half a dozen dates and although some new songs are reported from earlier dates we are treated to the tried and trusted tonight. They’re the next generation of classic American rock music, and for that, they come highly recommended.īlackberry Smoke have made a major impact among the rock fraternity in the UK during the last 12 months, following the release of their most recent studio CD, 'The Whippoorwill'. Its follow up, 2015’s “Holding All The Roses” did even better by hurtling into the number one spot on its first week of release.

They’ve even started to see some well deserved commercial success come their way, with their third album “The Whippoorwill” charting in the top ten of the Billboard country album charts. Since then they’ve supported practically every southern rock band of note that’s still going, from ZZ Top to Lynyrd Skynyrd themselves. They spent the first three years of their existence playing live around the Atlanta rock scene, before signing to Cock Of The Walk records in 2003 and releasing their debut album “Bad Luck Ain’t No Crime” in January of the following year. Soon enough, Brandon Still joined on the keys and the band made their live debut in 2000, playing anywhere that would have them. Each of them had been playing their instruments since they were children, and eventually, the four piece got around to jamming together. The two would head down to the state capital of Atlanta to see bands play, and it was there that they met brothers Brit and Richard Turner, who know play drums and bass respectively. The band was formed around the friendship between singer Charlie Starr and guitarist Paul Jackson, who met in LaGrange, Georgia and became gig buddies in short order. However, the band are a little more complex than that. A band that used to weep themselves to sleep every night about how they didn’t form in 1972 until they took a stand and decided to make the 21st century sound as much like the seventies as they could.

It would be easy to classify Blackberry Smoke as throwbacks.

Blackberry smoke holding all the roses solo tab