Frontman and guitarist of the great Blackberry Smoke, Charlie Starr, joins me to break down all eight of their studio albums, and how the band is honoring and paying tribute to their late drummer Brit Turner with the release of their first ever best of album, Rattle, Ramble & Roll - The Best of Blackberry Smoke, Vol. 1.
🎧 Episodes available in audio and video format on all podcast platforms.
Check out my first interview with Charlie (2024):https://youtu.be/gWC13H2H7m0
Watch Blackberry Smoke perform "The Whippoorwill" for Off The Avenue:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW-Lj6XkLj
00:00 Intro
0:47 Bad Luck Ain’t No Crime
1:30 Why Blackberry Smoke re-recorded Sanctified Woman
4:20 Recording first album with Jesse James Dupree of Jackyl and not having enough songs
5:50 What happened to BamaJam Records
7:14 Little Piece of Dixie and working with outside songwriters
9:28 Writing with Travis Meadows
11:11 Recording Blackberry Smoke songs written entirely by others
13:44 How the first two albums hold up for Charlie
14:11 Changing the setlist for every show
15:53 Touring with Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
17:10 The Whippoorwill and help from Zac Brown (Zac Brown Band) and his record label
21:06 How Charlie’s divorce affected songwriting
21:59 Disagreement with Travis Meadows when writing One Horse Town
23:57 The Whippoorwill having Pink Floyd vibes and joking with Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes)
25:44 How The Whippoorwill holds up for Charlie
26:36 Performing songs differently live versus the recording
28:13 Recording together live in the studio
28:42 Holding All The Roses, releasing it on Rounder Records and the end of Zac Brown’s label
30:50 Why Blackberry Smoke started their own label 3 Legged Records and the origins of the name
32:20 Becoming first independent act to have a #1 country album on Billboard (Holding All The Roses)
33:32 Working with Brendan O’Brien
36:27 The importance of a great producer
37:30 Why they only did one album with Brendan O’Brien
38:10 Like An Arrow and feeling good as a songwriter
39:04 How Benji Shanks joined the band
40:46 Working with Gregg Allman
43:54 The importance of Like An Arrow to Charlie
44:21 Find A Light and the Tom Petty connection with Best Seat In The House
45:20 Writing with Keith Nelson (ex-Buckcherry guitarist)
46:49 Tom Petty’s death caused Best Seat In The House to make the record
49:08 Relationship with Junkyard, Brian Baker and David Roach who covered ’Til The Wheels Fall Off
51:31 Covering Black Sabbath’s Children Of The Grave in tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
53:00 You Hear Georgia and working with producer Dave Cobb
54:45 The impact of the pandemic on You Hear Georgia and writing with Warren Haynes
57:10 Deciding when a song’s co-writer will perform on the recording
57:56 Collaborating with Mark Morton of Lamb Of God
58:42 Be Right Here - the final album with drummer Brit Turner
1:02:09 Rattle, Ramble, and Roll Volume 1
1:03:12 Update on next Blackberry Smoke studio album
1:03:48 Covering Bad Company’s Run With The Pack featuring Paul Rodgers and Brann Dailor (Mastodon)
1:06:04 Remembering Brent Hinds (ex-Mastodon)
1:08:02 What’s next for Blackberry Smoke
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Outro: "Fear of Heights" - A Light Divided
Used with permission.
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