BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:344@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T230000 DTSTAMP:20220511T174028Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/blackberry-smoke-summer-22- tour-rasslin-is-real/ SUMMARY:Blackberry Smoke Summer ‘22 Tour: Rasslin' Is Real DESCRIPTION:Throughout their career\, Blackberry Smoke—vocalist/lead guit arist Charlie Starr\, guitarist/vocalist Paul Jackson\, bassist/vocalist R ichard Turner\, drummer Brit Turner\, and keyboardist Brandon Still—has embodied Georgia’s rich musical legacy\, honoring the people\, places an d sounds of their home state. As the band celebrates their 20th anniversar y this year\, their reverence for Georgia has only deepened.\nOn their lat est album\, You Hear Georgia\, the follow-up to 2018’s critically acclai med Find a Light\, Blackberry Smoke is further celebrating these roots wit h 10 new songs that feel like Georgia\, accented by the addition of Grammy -winning producer and fellow Georgia-native\, Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell\, Br andi Carlile). “Dave and I had spoken for the last few years about makin g a record\,” Starr says. “Finally\, it worked out\, our schedule and his schedule\, and we said\, yes—let’s make a record.”\nBlackberry S moke worked quickly\, spending just\n10 days at Nashville’s famed RCA St udio A\, Cobb’s home base since 2016. The band recorded live on the floo r\, giving You Hear Georgia a crisp\, outgoing feel. Like other Blackberry Smoke efforts\, this album leans into well-crafted Southern rock driven b y jagged guitar riffs and rich instrumentation\, as the band layers on rol licking piano (“Live It Down”)\, funky grooves (“Hey Delilah”)\, a nd introspective acoustic sounds (the stripped-down\, folk-leaning “Old Enough to Know”).\n“He’s a very laid-back guy with excellent ideas\, but he’s very enthusiastic about making music\, and he’s right in the re with you having a ball\,” Starr says.\n“He’s a calming presence a nd so knowledgeable musically\, and he knows how to get what he wants in t he studio. I don’t know if we could have made a record in 10 days with e veryone\, and that definitely speaks to Dave’s ability.”\nWorking with Cobb was the right move\, as his approach brought warmth and looseness to the proceedings\, while his easygoing demeanor and songwriting background allowed him to provide perceptive insights into this particular batch of Blackberry Smoke songs. In fact\, the producer encouraged Blackberry Smoke to pursue the title track after hearing Starr noodling on the idea in the studio.\n“He heard me play it\, just the riff\, and I sang a little bit of a verse and he said\, ‘What’s that? What’s that?’” Starr say s. “I said\, ‘It’s just something that’s not finished yet.’ And he said\, ‘Well\, finish it\, because we want to record that too.’ So I went back to the hotel room and finished it\, and there we go.”\n\n“ You Hear Georgia” features a narrator who’s underestimated because of outward appearances and misguided stereotypes\, which is a theme of Starr ’s lyrics this time around\, particularly as it relates to the band’s Southern roots. “Lyrically\, the song is about the South being misunders tood. It’s obviously a rough and tumble world\, and there’s a lot of b ad people. But there’s a lot of good people too. It started with the ide a of how people might have a preconceived opinion of you because of a thic k Southern accent\, then expanded into the reality of how some people just seem to have such a hard time getting along\, thanks to political or reli gious views\, or simply what part of the country you come from.”\nIn tha t spirit\, Starr found collaborating valuable as You Hear Georgia’s song s came together. Jamey Johnson ended up lending gruff and tender vocals to the pedal steel-augmented “Lonesome For a Livin’” after he and Star r started reminiscing about a previous collaboration\, their 2009 cover of the Willie Nelson-penned\n“Yesterday’s Wine.”\n“We were talking a fter a show\, and he said\, ‘Hey\, let’s do something else\,’” Sta rr says. “I said\, ‘I have this song\, it’s really a honky-tonk song . And he said\, ‘Send it to me\,’ and I did\, and he dug it.” And so he came down to the studio and just killed it. He has a voice like no oth er.”\nStarr also co-wrote most of the album’s songs with friends\, inc luding current Lynyrd Skynyrd member Rickey Medlocke (“Old Scarecrow”) and Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes (“All Rise Again”)\, as well as tw o frequent collaborators\, Four Horsemen guitarist Dave Lizmi\, and ex-Buc kcherry member Keith Nelson.\n“That’s just an enjoyable thing to do so metimes\,” Starr says of co-writing with pals. “It’s like\, ‘Okay\ , let’s just knock heads together and see what we come up with.’ And s ometimes it’s magical.”\nThe songs Starr wrote with Haynes\, Lizmi and Nelson came together in the early stages of 2020’s pandemic-driven lock down. But save for “All Rise Again”—a surging highlight with a trade mark Haynes blues-jam solo and an optimistic vibe—these lyrics aren’t explicitly about the disorienting experience of the lockdown.\n“There we re so many musicians stuck in their living room\,” Starr explains. “Th ose songs were born out of that necessity to create and make new music. Yo u’ve gotta be moving forward.”\nUnsurprisingly\, many of You Hear Geor gia’s songs describe characters that are restless and prone to seeking o ut a change of scenery\, in hopes of finding a place where they belong. Ag ainst cinematic backdrops with vivid details\, it’s easy to empathize wi th these protagonists as they share pearls of wisdom (“Don’t ever trus t a grown man with a nickname”) and exhibit deep self-awareness (“Anyw here’s better than staying here\, with the ghosts running thru his mind ”) along the way.\nThe hard-touring Blackberry Smoke knows a little some thing about hitting the road in order to find a place to belong. Over the years\, the band’s toured with ZZ Top\, Zac Brown Band\, and Eric Church \, while the group’s last four full-lengths reached the top 10 of the Bi llboard country charts\, with two of these albums (2015’s Holding All Th e Roses and 2016’s Like An Arrow) landing at No. 1.\nYou Hear Georgia re inforces that the band members have come so far together because they also can rely on one another for support and creative direction\, no matter wh at the circumstances.\n“Having played music together for so long\, it do es become a sort of a telepathic thing\, where we all are nodding our head at the same time\, like\, ‘A-ha\, I know what this feels like\,’ or w hat it should feel and sound like\,” Starr says.\n“That’s what makes it so enjoyable to be in a band: to play with the same dudes decade after decade\,” he adds. “Because when you land on something that works to you\, you don’t want to stop. You want to keep doing it.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.jointherevolution.net/wp-content/upl oads/2022/05/Blackberry-Smoke-2022-9.625x12.png CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States GEO:26.121358;-80.1461974 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Laud erdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Revolution Live:geo:26.121358,-80.1461974 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR