The diehards tuned into Paramount’s western drama “Yellowstone” might be familiar with Atlanta Southern rock fusion act Blackberry Smoke, who has enjoyed several key music placements in the hit TV series. But it was 10 years ago when the band first struck mainstream gold with their seminal album, “The Whippoorwill,” after surviving the wild west as independent artists.
“We had been sort of forced into this stagnant period back then for a few years because we were involved in an odd independent label situation, and the president and CEO went to prison, so we were tied up legally. We were sort of frozen in musical limbo so to speak,” says frontman Charlie Starr over the phone from his Georgia home, while on a brief break from the road. “Nothing gets in the way of the music business like the music business.”
