Black Stone Cherry
10.07.2008
FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION GETS REVIEWED!!
Black Stone Cherryy's Folklore and Superstition, in stores now gets rave reviews from Artist Direct!
Check out what they had to say HERE. 
10.06.2008
NEW SITE CHANGES!
You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.
A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!
Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).
The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?
Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.
Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!
We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.
Please feel free to leave comments here below!
Cheers!
Jeremy Rosen
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09.04.2008
I HOPE YOU GOT RAILED TO DEICIDE
Someone announced their wedding to Roadrunner Records, which of course triggered a hail of new In the Pit activity this week.
First, check out the Mail Bag where people asked for Slipknot backstage passes, I gave my best wishes to the newly-engaged, and someone complimented us on the new Black Stone Cherry album.
Sam Totman said there were too many dudes at Mayhem (what else is new?), but he did manage to get snapped with a cute redhead. Check her out in the Fan Photos section.
We're keeping our poll on which RR band would make the best name for a sex act open. VOTE HERE. Currently 36 Crazyfists is in the lead.
Finally, we've gotten a lot of email complimenting us on the Skull Sessions podcast, so we opened up a place for you to comment publicly in this week's Forum.
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08.19.2008
ALL THINGS BLACK STONE CHERRY
Roadrunner Records is proud to present the sophomore effort from Black Stone Cherry, Folklore and Superstitions. On this album the band incorporates lyrical tales with upbeat riffing and atypical conventions like turkey calls, making it a record that is pleasing as it is unpredictable. The band recorded the album at Black Bird Studios, which is owned and operated by country artist Martina McBride, in Nashville, Tennessee. The album crackles with a down-home, feel good, rock ‘n roll current and was produced and mixed by veteran rock producer Bob Marlette.
Tracks:
1. Blind Man
2. Please Come In
3. Reverend Wrinkle
4. Soul Creek
5. Things My Father Said
6. The Bitter End
7. Long Sleeves
8. Peace Is Free
9. Devil's Queen
10. The Key
11. You
12. Sunrise
13. Ghost Of Floyd Collins
NEW VIDEO!
For your viewing pleasure, check out the brand new video for the first single, "Blind Man", off of the album. Watch the band rock the walls of the old Waverly Hills Sanatorium. The video is the main feature this week on our video page.
That's not all either, the guys sat down for an interview to discuss how their musical influences growing up affected the making of the album, Folklore and Superstition which is out today!
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08.13.2008
GOT A QUESTION FOR BLACK STONE CHERRY?
Black Stone Cherry will be the featured guests on the nationally syndicated radio show ROCKLINE with host Bob Coburn on Monday August 18 at 8:30pm PT / 11:30pm ET. Call in to speak with Black Stone Cherry toll free at 1-800-344-ROCK (7625) and ask them questions about their new album Folklore & Superstition out on 8/19! For a station near you and for information regarding how to log in for the actual broadcast go to www.RocklineRadio.com.
More than anything, the South is known for its music and its strong family ties. Both are highlighted with Black Stone Cherry, a Kentucky band that redefines southern rock for a modern audience. By any standard, BSC is unconventional: they take the larger-than-life mystique of classic rock and modernize it with a driving attack that is equal parts roots and modern hard rock. Few bands this young - none of the four members is older than 23, the youngest is 20 - sound this powerful or versatile. They're hard and heavy, but Black Stone Cherry is southern to the core, and they come by their love of music in genuine way: it's in their blood, and it's in their home.
BSC hails from Edmonton, a small town in south-central Kentucky that's in the middle of a dry (alcohol-prohibited) county, where there is very little to do. For many, including the members of BSC, music was their escape. And there was a lot of music around. "There's lots of great bluegrass and southern gospel groups which we all love," says Ben. Given all this music, it's no shock that the four members of BSC have a rich musical tradition in their own families, handed down from their grandparents, through their parents, to the band themselves. John Fred's father Richard is a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Kentucky Headhunters, while Jon's Great-Uncle was a jazz drummer. Chris received his first guitar from his grandfather, who built instruments by hand, and learned his first chords from his dad. And it wasn't just their family that encouraged them to play: whenever Chris got into trouble at school, he wound up in the principal's office, jamming with the principal himself.
Surrounded by music and support down in Edmonton, Black Stone Cherry was able develop far away from the mainstream. "When you're from an area where you don't have the competition to be playing the same kind of music, you create your own style of music," explains John Fred. Robertson agrees: "being down here, in the middle of nowhere, you kind of have to come up with your own thing just to entertain yourself." Chris and John Fred began playing together while they were still teenagers in high school, with Jon and Ben joining them soon afterward, officially forming on June 4, 2001. Black Stone Cherry took over a century-old practice house that had been the territory of the Kentucky Headhunters since 1968 and rehearsed relentlessly. There was a special vibe in that practice house that emanated from the walls plastered with decades of rock memorabilia - posters, flyers, album covers. "We grew up looking at these posters and visualizing ourselves being on kids bedrooms," explains John Fred. "It pushed us to try to create something up to that level."
While there are echoes of the past in their music - their fluid musicality recalls Zeppelin and they have an honesty often associated with bands like Skynyrd and the Black Crowes - it merely acts as a foundation for their music. Black Stone Cherry is a full-throttle modern rock band, with guitars that rage and a shuddering rhythmic attack. They sound as earthy and raw as Soundgarden, as heavy and fun as AC/DC, yet there's a higher level of musicianship to their performances and songwriting that makes them like no one else. They can grind out an intense, bluesy riff that's equal parts Guns N Roses and Alice In Chains on "Lonely Train," a gripping song about how war effects the families left behind when a soldier goes off to war. There's an intensity to "Lonely Train" that cuts to the bone. They also can conjure up spooky, cinematic drama as they do on "Rain Wizard," a tune based on a local legend about mysterious wisemen that could bring about rain at a time of drought and famine. And with the rampaging "Backwoods Gold," BSC proves they're master storytellers, too, with a tale about a local man who ran moonshine out of the hardware store in the heart of town. This variety is unusual in a young band, and John Fred says that was the intention: "We wanted to dig deep into the well and pull something out that was totally different from what was going on. We wanted to make music that people could really latch onto - something that was still totally different from what was going on today but reminded people of the great rock icons of yesteryear."
That's what happened in Edmonton - everybody from eight to eighty embraced Black Stone Cherry. "People heard about these kids taking over these old-time music clubs and we turned them into rock & roll parties," remembers Ben. Soon, there wasn't a soul in town who didn't love the band. Once recording was finished, the band played a homecoming concert, and 1500 people packed into the local middle school gym - the same school where Chris used to jam away with the principal. It was that principal who invited the group back for a concert to celebrate their debut album on In De Goot/Roadrunner Records. Pulling into town, the roads were covered with signs welcoming the band back home - even the digital construction signs hailed their return, trumpeting "BSC TONIGHT at the Middle School" - a sure sign of how beloved this band is in Edmonton.
Now, with their debut album about to be released, America at large will soon love Black Stone Cherry too. Appropriately, the debut was recorded at home in Kentucky, with friends and family: John Fred's father along with engineer wiz David Barrick produced the album. Kevin Shirley of Aerosmith's "Nine Lives" and Led Zeppelin's "How the West was Won", mixed the record at the Palm's Studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Chris says, "We went in and recorded it like they did in the old days. It's really human, it's not robotic or anything." "It's all about the groove," says Jon, the way it makes people move." This album captures the kinetic energy and force of the band's live show and it is proof that Black Stone Cherry are true southern originals. Or as Ben puts it: "We're a straight-ahead, in-your-face rock & roll band that tells the truth and sometimes stretches it beyond the imagination."
All upcoming tour dates
| Date | Venue | Address | Other Info |
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| 10.7.2008 | The Machine Shop | 3539 Dort Highway Flint,
MI 48507
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18+: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $22. |
| 10.8.2008 | The Whiskey Venue | 1101 West Main Cross Findlay,
OH 45840
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18+: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $22 Adv/$25 DOS. |
| 10.9.2008 | Wedgewood Entertainment Center | 1743 S Raccoon Rd. Youngstown,
OH 44515
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $15 Adv/$18 DOS. |
| 10.10.2008 | Crocodile Rock | 520-524 Hamilton St. Allentown,
PA 18101
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $15 Adv/$17 DOS. |
| 10.11.2008 | Webster Theatre | 31 Webster St. Hartford,
CT 06114
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $16 Adv/$18 DOS. |
| 10.12.2008 | Recher Theatre | 512 York Road Towson,
MD 21204
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $20. |
| 10.14.2008 | The Palladium | 261 Main St. Worcester,
MA 01608
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $18 Adv/$20 DOS. |
| 10.15.2008 | Northern Lights | 1208 Route 146 Clifton Park,
NY 12065
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16+ The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $16 Adv/$18 DOS. |
| 10.16.2008 | Chameleon Club | 223 North Water Street Lancaster,
PA 17603
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18+ The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $18 Adv/$20 DOS. |
| 10.19.2008 | Loud Park Festival at Super Arena | Tokyo Tokyo,
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| 10.22.2008 | Soul Kitchen | 219 Dauphin St. Mobile,
AL 36602
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18+: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $17 Adv/$20 DOS. |
| 10.23.2008 | Sammy T's | 116 Washington Street SE Huntsville,
AL 35801
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19+: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $25 Adv/$28 DOS. |
| 10.24.2008 | Floyd's Music Store | 666-1 West Tennessee St. Tallahassee,
FL 32304
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $18 Adv/$20 DOS. |
| 10.25.2008 | WXTB Guava Ween | 7th Ave. And 14th Street Ybor City,
FL 33605
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All Ages: WXTB Guava Ween feat. Puddle Of Mudd, THEORY OF A DEADMAN, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB. Tickets: $15. |
| 10.26.2008 | House of Blues | 1490 E. Buena Vista Dr. Lake Buena Vista,
FL 32830
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