Brothers & Sisters! The Fans Speak out on
SMOKIN’! BLACKBERRY SMOKE
Compiled by Michael Buffalo Smith
Band, and “Fairies Wear Boots” by Black Sab- bath, along with tunes by Little Feat, George Jones ande Prince. They change their set lists every night, like the Dead used to do, in consideration of the Brothers and Sisters who attend multiple shows and love the surprises. They are currently touring to sup- port the excellent Find a Light LP, and the fan base seems to grow with each con- cert, and there’s almost al- ways a concert! For our cover story, we de-
David McLister Ain’t no doubt about it, Atlanta born
Blackberry Smoke are the reigning kings of Southern Rock, but they are so much more. The boys have fans in the hard core country circles (they did, after all, duet with George Jones), the hard rock crowd, the classic rock fans, the Dead Heads, the Allman Brothers fan base, and the Skynyrd crowd. They are an amazing band. Like Gov’t Mule before them, they have a knack for doing the unexpected onstage. I have personally seen them cover “Can’t You See” by Marshall Tucker, “The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down” by the
cided that, rather than do an- other interview (we recently featured a Charlie Starr in- terview available in the archives), we’d put out a call
to fans to share their stories and photos. What follows are the best of the responses. Miss out? E-mail us a Letter to the Editor and we’ll consider running it next issue. Until then, my wish for you is that Smoke gets in your eyes. . . and ears.
“Music to me has always been about the lyrics and the story they tell. I grew up in Jack- sonville Florida during the beginning of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Ronnie was the one songwriter whose songs spoke to me and told
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