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Blackberry Smoke Find A Light (3 Legged Records) These days, a new re-


lease from Blackberry Smoke is a highly antic- ipated and exciting event. After charting three Top 40 albums


including two consecutive number one records, both in the USA and the United King- dom, the boys from Atlanta return with a self- produced album that is destined to be ranked among their finest ever work. Find a Light delivers 13 new songs, all


written or co-written by the prolific front man/singer/guitarist Charlie Starr. Joining Starr and fellow band members Richard Turner (Bass/vocals), Brit Turner (drums), Paul Jackson (guitar/vocals) and Brandon Still (keyboards), the album also features special guest appearances by pedal steel master Robert Randolph (“I’ll Keep Ramblin’”), Amanda Shires (“Let Me Down Easy”) and The Wood Brothers (“Mother Mountain”). Like all Smoke albums, there is a lot of


variety to be had among these 13 grooves, from the blues shuffle of “Flesh and Bone,” featuring a guitar lead that – perhaps only in my own mind- sounds like a cross between Eric Clap- ton and Ace Frehley, to the bouncy Tom Petty feel of “Run Away from It All,” a retelling of the classic story of a boy and a girl leaving everything behind to get a fresh new start. “The Crooked Kind” rocks and rolls,


while the acoustic dominated “Medicate My Mind” explores the need for a little something- something to level out and relieve that stress that life can often engulf us. I must admit, I do love it when Smoke


pull out the acoustic guitars, as on the country “I’ve Got This Song,” a pretty tune that leads


into what may be my favorite song on the album, “Best Seat in the House,” again chan- neling Tom Petty as well as The Byrds. The melody sticks with you like fly paper on a hot August night. “We all want what we ain’t got, some of us have and some have not… All of my life I’ve been turned out but one of these days I’ll get the best seat in the house.” Yeah baby. The aforementioned “I’ll Keep Ramblin”


is a serious rockin’ throw down with Robert Randolph ripping it up on steel guitar. No use trying to describe it. You just gotta hear it! Just when you’re looking up to see what just hit you, Charlie and ‘em dip back into the acoustic well for “Seems So Far, ” before returning to their electric bombast with “Lord Strike Me Dead,” a song that sums up today’s society bet- ter than any I have heard lately. “Lord these children have gone crazy. Lord, Lord please come down and save me.” “Let Me Down Easy” is a beautiful coun-


try/Americana tune that finds Charlie in per- fect harmony with Amanda Shires, and “Nobody Gives a Damn” rocks with that un- mistakable Blackberry Smoke swagger, full tilt guitars and drums all up in your face. Then comes “Til the Wheels Fall Off,” another excel- lent rocker that leads into the set closer, “Mother Mountain,” a killer acoustic based tune that features the Wood Brothers and harkens back to the days of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Beautiful. Several critics have already praised Find


a Light as Blackberry Smoke’s finest work yet. I agree to a point, but to go all in I’d have to move all of their other albums down a notch, and I don’t want to do that. Instead, I will say that Find a Light is just as good as the best of Smoke’s catalog, and that, my friends, is as good as it gets.


-Michael Buffalo Smith


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