Across the American south, Chris Robertson tells us, bonfires are “kind of a thing”. After a storm the dead limbs of trees are gathered and set alight. People roast marshmallows. They cook out and have a few drinks, uniting in a primal, cathartic act of communion over fire. It was this image, on the back of a testing period for Black Stone Cherry, that gave Robertson the idea for the title track of their recent album, Screamin’ At The Sky, their fourth entry in the UK Top 10.
“I just had this idea of the four of us in the band,” the frontman explains, “and our friends and families gathered around a bonfire and simultaneously screaming all of our pains and worries into the sky.”
