Black Stone Cherry
Jan 29, 2016
On April 1st, the Kentucky rockers Black Stone Cherry will release their fifth studio album, "Kentucky", on via Mascot Label Group. The band recorded this collection at Barrick Recording in Glasgow, Kentucky. Taking a "back-to-the-roots" approach, the CD was produced in the same way and same place as their debut album. The first single out now for the forthcoming album is "In Our Dreams."
Black Stone Cherry guitarist Ben Wells recently explained: "This is the first time we get to self-produce. And most of the songs, with the exception of maybe two or three out of fifteen, are all written by us, the four of us. Which all of our songs always are - we might co-write with somebody - but this time, the majority of the songs are all written by us. So it feels really good to kind of have that creative freedom. Even though we're still learning things as we get along, we've kind of picked up over the years touring internationally what our fans have come to expect and what we expect from ourselves and what we know people are gonna enjoy from us. So it's definitely... it's raw, it's heavy. We're going back to our hometown to record it, where we did our debut album. So we're kind of revisiting some of that old mojo that we had, and I think our fans have been wanting that from us for a long time now. So we want, and I know they want it, and we're just excited about it. I mean, the songs... These are probably some of the coolest songs we've written as far as the music and the melodies."
Formed in 2001 in Edmonton, Kentucky, the band consists of Chris Robertson (lead vocals, lead guitar), Ben Wells (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Jon Lawhon (bass guitar, backing vocals) and John Fred Young (drums, backing vocals). Black Stone Cherry have released four studio albums: "Black Stone Cherry" (2006), "Folklore and Superstition" (2008), "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (2011) and "Magic Mountain" (2014), as well as three EPs, and have charted eight singles on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks charts.