Artist: Blackberry Smoke
Album: Holding All The Roses
Bitrate: 258kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Earache
Genre: Southern Rock
Size: 80.31 megs
PlayTime: 0h 40min 40sec total
Rip Date: 2015-02-05
Store Date: 2015-02-06

Track List:
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01. Let Me Help You (Find The Door)  3:03
02. Holding All The Roses            3:17
03. Living In The Song               3:24
04. Rock And Roll Again              2:50
05. Woman In The Moon                4:39
06. Too High                         3:11
07. Wish In One Hand                 3:10
08. Randolph County Farewell         1:17
09. Payback's A Bitch                4:19
10. Lay It All On Me                 3:09
11. No Way Back To Eden              4:35
12. Fire In The Hole                 3:46

Release Notes:
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The rise of Blackberry Smoke, a hard-working, heavy-riffing quintet of
southern-fried road monsters, hasnÆt exactly been meteoric.

For the past 14-plus years, the Atlanta-based rockers have been enjoying what
frontman Charlie Starr calls a ôslow build,ö playing more than 250 shows a year,
touring with ZZ Top, releasing a handful of studio and live discs and, most
importantly, forging a legion of rabid fans.

Although their last album, 2012Æs The Whippoorwill, helped launch them into the
role of southern rockÆs newest hirsute ambassadors, their upcoming effort,
Holding All the Roses (due in February via Rounder Records), holds the promise
of upping the ante.

The 12-song set, which was produced by fellow Atlanta native Brendan OÆBrien
, is packed with crunchy back-porch grooves, greasy riffs,
snarling guitar tones and simply irresistible hooks.

ôThis record gives the listener a lot to more to listen to,ö says Starr, the
bandÆs chief songwriter, singer and guitarist. ôThereÆs nothing wrong with a
meat-and-potatoes record like The Whippoorwill, but this time we put a lot more
into the pie. Some people might think that means it sounds overproduced, but
then I guess it is, because we produced more.ö

Besides StarrÆs main ax, a 1956 Gibson Les Paul Jr., the Holding All the Roses
gear pile includes StarrÆs Gibson Music City Jr. with B-Bender, which can be
heard on ôFire in the Hole,ö a host of vintage Fender and Marshall amps and
several by Greg Germino of North Carolina that were built in the style of
Sixties Plexi amps.

For Starr, who shares six-string duties with Paul Jackson, itÆs all about the
riffs.

ôIÆm a guitar player first, so the songs are always riff-oriented. That part is
usually already done, so itÆs a tall job for Paul to find a part that
complements the riff. Sometimes he and I sit down and work on the whole
Allmans-style æweavingÆ thing, trying to find that guitar magic.ö



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Artist: Blackberry Smoke
Album: Holding All The Roses
Bitrate: 258kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Earache
Genre: Southern Rock
Size: 80.31 megs
PlayTime: 0h 40min 40sec total
Rip Date: 2015-02-05
Store Date: 2015-02-06

Track List:
--------
01. Let Me Help You (Find The Door)  3:03
02. Holding All The Roses            3:17
03. Living In The Song               3:24
04. Rock And Roll Again              2:50
05. Woman In The Moon                4:39
06. Too High                         3:11
07. Wish In One Hand                 3:10
08. Randolph County Farewell         1:17
09. Payback's A Bitch                4:19
10. Lay It All On Me                 3:09
11. No Way Back To Eden              4:35
12. Fire In The Hole                 3:46

Release Notes:
--------
The rise of Blackberry Smoke, a hard-working, heavy-riffing quintet of
southern-fried road monsters, hasn’t exactly been meteoric.

For the past 14-plus years, the Atlanta-based rockers have been enjoying what
frontman Charlie Starr calls a “slow build,” playing more than 250 shows a year,
touring with ZZ Top, releasing a handful of studio and live discs and, most
importantly, forging a legion of rabid fans.

Although their last album, 2012’s The Whippoorwill, helped launch them into the
role of southern rock’s newest hirsute ambassadors, their upcoming effort,
Holding All the Roses (due in February via Rounder Records), holds the promise
of upping the ante.

The 12-song set, which was produced by fellow Atlanta native Brendan O’Brien
, is packed with crunchy back-porch grooves, greasy riffs,
snarling guitar tones and simply irresistible hooks.

“This record gives the listener a lot to more to listen to,” says Starr, the
band’s chief songwriter, singer and guitarist. “There’s nothing wrong with a
meat-and-potatoes record like The Whippoorwill, but this time we put a lot more
into the pie. Some people might think that means it sounds overproduced, but
then I guess it is, because we produced more.”

Besides Starr’s main ax, a 1956 Gibson Les Paul Jr., the Holding All the Roses
gear pile includes Starr’s Gibson Music City Jr. with B-Bender, which can be
heard on “Fire in the Hole,” a host of vintage Fender and Marshall amps and
several by Greg Germino of North Carolina that were built in the style of
Sixties Plexi amps.

For Starr, who shares six-string duties with Paul Jackson, it’s all about the
riffs.

“I’m a guitar player first, so the songs are always riff-oriented. That part is
usually already done, so it’s a tall job for Paul to find a part that
complements the riff. Sometimes he and I sit down and work on the whole
Allmans-style ‘weaving’ thing, trying to find that guitar magic.”



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