Blackberry Smoke were one of the major positive surprises in recent years for me. They have competed with playful ease the extremely heavy legacy of established Southern bands without ever therefore come as a cheap copy. Fascinating! Just about the melting pot has made Southern Rock, Country and tasty prizes from soul and folk rarely works. A homogeneous active band that was able to convince with profound songwriting. And now this! From my boxing wafts a tired, sterile imitation of the earlier Blackberry Smoke, without the fresh, innovative guitars, which have been tastefully embedded in a compact active backing band. Totproduziert up! What a pity, my expectations were really high and was thoroughly disappointed. I really dug deep and the CD given several chances ... but I really need to also state that the songwriting has clearly waned. Perhaps the constant touring has now taken its toll. Two stars because it certainly still is in Blackberry Smoke to an extremely ass live band that has stayed with this acceptable disk far behind their claims. And ... Brendan O'Brien should not assume in its list of references this disc. The designer of the cover art, however, has done a great job, which is responsible for ensuring that there were two stars. The next album I will buy again, however blindly, because that can not go on!
