If you love rock and country, and would like to see what would happen if AC/DC and Charlie Daniels produced a musical child, buy this album. If you want to hear nothing but steel guitar and stripped-down country, this is not the album for you. It’s more rock than country, but it succeeds at both. Holding all the Roses is an excellent album. Lines like “I can’t see why you are the one who holds the key” point to this, but I could be wrong. “Fire in the Hole” feels more personal, like an attack on a record label or executive. The album closes much as it began–with an angry rock song. It’s another one that you really need to hear to appreciate.
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“No Way Back to Eden” argues that the world is so full of sin and evil that it is beyond help. The narrator falls in love with a girl with a complicated past and is now on the run from her and her brother after being caught cheating. “Lay it All on Me” is a fun song that paints an amusing picture of our dirty little secrets. Their lyrical focus comes from their country leanings.īlackberry Smoke ventures back to country for the next two songs.
It makes you want to listen to the words as much as the music. I love the line, “If I were you, I’d sleep with one eye open.” I also love how much thought the group seems to put into their lyrics, even on rock songs. They illustrate that this will never be reality with the brilliant line, “Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first for you, brother.” The instrumental “Randolph Country Farewell” is a nice acoustic country interlude before “Payback’s a Bitch.” This rock song is about a man telling a woman just that. It’s a song about someone who is wishing to be rich, liked by everyone, etc. This feeling seems to be temporary though, and this feels like a laidback, less angry version of “Holding all the Roses.” “That mountain is too high for me to climb, that river is too deep and it’s too wide,” the group sings. “Too High” is the first completely country song and is something I could picture on an Alabama album. It’s a song that’s hard to explain and one you need to hear for yourself to really appreciate. Next is the blended track, “Woman in the Moon.” This is a slower song which describes living life “a little off-kilter.” I paid more attention here to the instrumentation, which features haunting fiddles and electric guitars. If there were more of these songs on the album, it would bring it down, but one is just right and feels more like an experiment that worked rather than a completely different sound. Following this is the fun rock song aptly titled “Rock and Roll Again.” It feels like I just stepped back into the 70’s here with this. It’s got rock music and country lyrics…that’s all I can say.
Next is “Living in the Song,” a song about living out the words to a heartbreak song. Lyrically, it’s great too, with lines about coming out of hard times and “Holding all the roses on the other side.” This is probably my favorite song on the album, but it’s really hard to pick. Next is “Holding All the Roses,” in which they blend acoustic guitars and fiddles with electric guitars to create the closest thing to country metal I’ve ever heard. I also like the rock protest element of the song blended with the lyrics protesting the state of country. I love that they chose to open with this it shows that what you see is what you get. They sell the same old faces with a brand-new name Same sons of bitches still rigging the game The same damn song that everybody wants to sing These lines were my first meeting with Blackberry Smoke The rock song “Let me Help You (Find the Door”) opens the album. This album was my first introduction to Blackberry Smoke, and I am now a fan. When the styles actually are blended, it is done flawlessly. In other words, rock songs are rock, and country songs are country. It doesn’t seek to blend the styles all the time. While I say that this album is a rock album first and a country album second, it does something that few pop country albums and rock country albums do well. Country Exclusive didn’t exist when it came out in February, but it deserves to be reviewed.
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