Blackberry smoke - "You hear Georgia"

 

Southern rock kings, SKYNYRD are simply GODS, are back with their new album and surprisingly they reinvent themselves. The opener "Live it down' is a straight forward rocker with the honky tonl overtones we love at BS. I guess ALLMAN, SKYNYRD ,BLACK CROWES can retire without concerns on their legacy. The jam part of "Live it down' is coming straight from the "Live at Fillmore East" while the harmonies are BS and in comparison BLACK CROWES. But BS have already evolved the honky tonk parts , the Tom Petty influences, classic rock, jam rock have made them a Southern beast that lives beyond and above tradition. "You hear Georgia" is their own tribute to SKYNYRD but at the same time is another BS classic.

 

The album is filled  with songs that stretches the band's sound and as always are emotional and far from the twelve bar ballroom boogie. "Lonesome for a livin" with the participation of another great artist Jamey Johnson is an emotional steamroller. At "all rise again" Warren Haynesjoint forces with Atlanta's best Southern band and gives a kick in the ass to stand up and live our lives in the virus depressed days."Hey Delilah" is a great Southern BS song, in the vein of GEORGIA SATELLITES , a party love song with great bass lines and some honky tonk piano to get you to the dance floor. The album is a musical dynamite with songs like "Old enough to know", "Morning side" and comes to the closure with the great Neil Young inspired , old timer in "Scarecrow". 

 

 

 

BS have been looking all over for inspiration, rock, country, honky tonk, but today they come wht their own distinctive sound, the one and only voice of Charlie Starr and the guitar work that is such a vital part of their sound with the Allman Bros footprint all over it. This is Southern rock for the 21st century and although i may not ever been able to see them on stage, i raise my glass from the South of Europe to the SKYNYRD of my generation and have a drink on them...

 

 

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