That’s my next question. Boy, you’re psychic! Yep.
I wanted to see what you can tell us about the new album. Are there any songs that you’re already getting excited about, that you’ve come up with? All of ‘em! (Both laugh)) There’s a couple in particular though that I’m just over the moon about it, it’s so good. We actually played one last night in Nashville at Music City Roots. It’s a dirty little blues thing called “What Comes Naturally” I actually wrote that song a long time ago. It just kind of laid around. I never really did anything with it. I forgot about it, ac- tually.
Yeah. And then one day I was like “Oh yeah,” and so we revved it back up but there’s one called “Free on the Wings” that I really like a lot. It’s a Macon, Georgia sounding kind of tune.
Ah, yeah. My kind of music. It’s kind of Capricorn-esqe. (Laughing) And then another one that I wrote with a good friend of mine, Travis Meadows. He and I have written several songs over the years and we wrote a new one called, “The Good Life.” For my part of the lyrics, I was singing about my dad. And I think he understood that so he prob- ably was singing about his dad or his granddad too so.
Ah, yeah. It’s going to be a good one.
Is that a slower song? Kind of a ballad, or... It is. It’s a country song. I would say that it’s a stone cold country song.
(Laugh) Well that’s one good thing about Blackberry Smoke, you guys can tackle country or hard rock or whatever, blues, anything. That’s my favorite kind of band. I’ve always liked bands that, you
know, just played it all basically. Yeah. There’s a couple songs on it that are defi- nitel,y as of right now, the heaviest two songs we’ve ever recorded. You know I get.. not com- plaints, but I get comments from fans some- times that I think they don’t quite get it.
Yeah. Because they’ll say, “I like it when y’all are heavy!” And I’m like, “Well, okay, that’s cool, I like to be heavy, too. But there’s a time and a place you know. We’re not a metal band.” You know, there’s a weird misnomer in my opinion about a lot of bands, that people call ‘em “Southern Rock Bands,” but they’re not! They’re metal bands. I’m like, this is not… who am I to define Southern Rock? I know what it means to me. That’s all.
Yeah, there’s really not a definition. I’ve been asked that a thousand times. Yeah, right.
It’s more like an attitude than anything. Somebody, when the Whippoorwill album came out, I remember talking to a guy at a show and he was like, “This one ain’t, it ain’t heavy, you know.” And I’m like, “Well, is Second Help- ing (Lynyrd Skynyrd) heavy?” No, it’s not. I mean, you’re going for whatever vibe you’re going for on the record. So far, the records we’ve made, we’ve gotten what we’ve gone for. So, I see sometimes that what we’re going for might not please everybody. You can’t please everybody, you know. There will be some peo- ple that don’t want to hear a hard rock song from us. The people that really love “Ain’t Got the Blues” or the “Whippoorwill,” they want to hear that kind of thing. So, it’s a weird thing. And now with social media you see it every day you know. When we put a record out, I don’t go online because I know the first people who say something are the negative people.
Yeah. That’s true. That’s bad. I hate that. And it’ll hurt your feelings, you know? It’s a heartbreaking thing. We just poured our heart
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