Blackberry Smoke
 You can call Blackberry Smoke’s music southern rock and you wouldn’t be wrong. Or you could call it country and you wouldn’t be wrong, either. But you would be selling both the band and its legion of fans short. With influences that run the gamut from country to bluegrass to metal to gospel and yes, southern rock, Blackberry Smoke is more than the sum of its diverse parts...Read More
Matt Kennon
 Music has been a part of rising country star Matt Kennon’s life for as long as he can remember. “The first record I played was the Eagles’ The Long Run,” he recalls. “I was three or four years old. It wasn’t so much about the words, it was about the feel of the music.” The words did come though, and when they did they came in spades. Matt’s personal, yet universally accessible, songwriting is part of what defines him. At the age of seven, Matt’s parents took him to see ‘80s rock group Survivor. “There was something about being there and seeing live music,” he recalls. “It was packed and I was up on my daddy’s shoulders. I was really moved...”Read more
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