{"id":64009,"date":"2019-01-15T20:07:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T02:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=64009"},"modified":"2019-01-15T17:08:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T23:08:27","slug":"georgia-native-southern-rockers-blackberry-smoke-make-a-stop-at-the-lyric-thursday-january-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/georgia-native-southern-rockers-blackberry-smoke-make-a-stop-at-the-lyric-thursday-january-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia-Native Southern Rockers Blackberry Smoke Make a Stop at The Lyric Thursday January 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pigeonholing Blackberry Smoke<\/strong> has never been easy. Since emerging from Atlanta in the early \u201900s, the quintet\u2014vocalist\/lead guitarist Charlie Starr<\/strong>, guitarist\/vocalist Paul Jackson<\/strong>, bassist\/vocalist Richard Turner<\/strong>, drummer Brit Turner,<\/strong> and keyboardist Brandon Still<\/strong>\u2014has become known for a singular sound indebted to classic rock, blues, country and folk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This fluidity has paid off handsomely, in the form of\ntwo Billboard chart-topping country albums, 2015\u2019s Holding All The Roses<\/em><\/strong> and\n2016\u2019s Like An Arrow<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blackberry\nSmoke<\/strong> will continue their\n\u201cFind A Light<\/strong>\u201d headline tour in 2019 with a stop at Oxford\u2019s Lyric Theater<\/strong> on Thursday, January 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\ntour celebrates a landmark year for Blackberry Smoke, which saw the release of\ntheir sixth-studio album, Find A Light,<\/em><\/strong> as well as a new acoustic\nEP, The Southern Ground Sessions<\/em><\/strong>. Find\nA Light<\/em> was released last April and debuted as the best-selling\nCountry and Americana\/Folk album in the country and entered at #3 on the Billboard<\/em>\nTop Country Albums chart and #2 on the Billboard<\/em>Americana\/Folk Albums\nchart. Of the album, NPR Music praises, \u201c\u2026Find\na Light<\/em> pushes the envelope while providing that\nfamous Blackberry Smoke autonomy,\ndelivered with soulful vocals, haunting harmonies and kick ass songs,\u201d while Relix\n<\/em>declares, \u201cBlackberry Smoke have long\nbeen heirs to the road-warrior mantle established by their classic-rock and\ncountry heroes. And, with their sixth full-length album, Find A Light<\/em>, the quintet has now firmly established an authentic\nlegacy of their own.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the album\u2019s release, Blackberry Smoke returned to\nthe studio and recorded The\nSouthern Ground Sessions<\/em>.  Created as an accompaniment to Find A Light<\/em>,\nthe six-song EP was recorded live at Southern Ground Studio<\/strong> in Nashville<\/strong>\nand features acoustic versions of five album tracks as well as a rendition of Tom Petty<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cYou Got Lucky\u201d featuring Amanda Shires<\/strong>. Of the EP, Rolling\nStone<\/em> Country<\/em> praises, \u201cBlackberry Smoke\u2019s crunchy Southern rock may be made\nfor fuzzed-out electric guitars, but their songs sure do translate well to\nbeing played acoustically,\u201d while Guitar World<\/em> states, \u201cWith the new EP,\na band that has defied critics to pigeonhole them have further proven that\nthere is no one genre that can contain their versatile sound.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since their debut in 2004, the band has independently released six full-length records and has toured relentlessly, building a strong and loyal community of fans. In addition to their work as musicians, Blackberry Smoke remains committed to charitable work and has raised nearly $200,000 benefiting children\u2019s cancer research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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