Blackberry Smoke's new album Be Right Here hits the stores today. It's their eighth studio album – the follow-up to 2021's You Hear Georgia – and finds the Atlanta band more than two decades into a career that's seen them progress from dive bars to theatres and arenas, leaving wild youth behind to become respected Southern rock statesmen. And for frontman Charlie Starr, those early years are something he looks back on with affection.
"I love those memories,” he tells Classic Rock, a little wistfully. “And I revisit them quite often. The ten thousand hours that we spent together being crazy, being wild. Not everything is funny. I have some horrible memories of us fighting, and of horrible situations that we put ourselves in, but at least eighty per cent of it is fun to remember."
