Every once in a while, a band comes along that hits you just right. For me, it's Blackberry Smoke. These guys' songs have gotten me through some of the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows, but none of them quite like this one. "Ain't Much Left of Me" became one of my favorite songs the first time I heard it, but I came across this version a few days after my mom passed and it made it so much more personal to me, as they incorporated "Amazing Grace" and Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds"- the song my daughter sang to my mom when she was in the hospital. Words can't express the feeling I get when I hear this live version.
I'm sorry for your lost. Yet how amazing a find this must have been. As if it were compiled just for you. Then again , you never know. It may have been influenced by someone above who loves you and watches over you still..
This band proves to me that too much great music passed me by while i was wrapped up in own world. Reminds me to stop and listen to everything I can so I get the chance to hear bands that have this amazing level of pure hard working, earned talent. And not too many bands are this tight, together as one when they play. Thank you Blackberry Smoke for all the work you have done to spread the magic of music to the world...never stop. Please stay healthy and safe. That goes for everyone...
One time in Illinois back in the early eighties, I ventured down the State to my friends Dads farm. We were out banging gears in an old GTO when I made a nasty comment about the farmers not leaving tree lines along the roads. He said to me; "Don't bad mouth the farmer with yer mouth full!" It stuck til this day and beyond! YAH Bless the Farmer!
You guys are awesome better than this the music I'm 65 don't get any better than this music the life I have been living every road I have went down to in life we all haven't experience and listening to blackberry smoke always one of the best
Hope you are doing better. Blackberry Smoke music helped me alot too with people and events I wished I could have changed for the better but could not. I learned it was time to care for me through it all. Hang in there ok?
I know what you meen, mine was "NO WEAPON" by Bryann Trejo Its a really uplifting song too. 🙏 And please don't feel alone, this world is HARD and full of evil but it cant "rain" all the time. Stay as positive as possible. P.S. The song "A CHANGE IS GONNA COME" was number 2 on my list of helpful songs I could relate to when I was at that point in my life. I couldn't tell you how much "healing" power music has had on me.
I agree. His real name is Charles Gray and he's from my small hometown in Eastern AL Lanett, AL. and wrote "One Horse Town" about it. He is amazingly talented!!!!!
I only recently discovered these guys and love the proud southern flavor of their music! I grew up on Skynyrd,Blackfoot,Outlaws,.38 special,Tom petty so the more I hear of them the better I like what their laying down
Got to see them this past weekend and they still got it easily top 5 of all time performances I've seen in person. Theyve been rockn this part of Michigan for 22 years! 🤘
saw these guys last week in Spokane Wa. - I've been to 100 + shows in my time and these guys are tied for #1 one - I wish I would've know about them 15 years ago . Keep on with GREAT performances Charlie and guys - Love from N. Idaho !
Been a fan since 1999......Met them personally 3 times and also spent some time with Richard's two boys who gave me some of their personal guitar picks. best live band period.......Spread the SMOKE brothers and sisters!!!
I love this beautiful guitar he's playing. This band is greatness, bringing it!! Love this live version. They're so talented most of their stuff sounds better live than on the album. Although I encourage ya'll to do both, buy the music and see them live!!
Being a music lover, I am embarrassed to admit, but somehow I've missed knowing this group until a year ago. They are Kick Ass. I'm normally a purest but they cover some of my old favs. and I gotta say "Right Frick'n ON!!!"
Drummer looks just like "Bobby" from Sons Of Anarchy!! This band is sooo great and the BEST, most LEGIT southern rock band since skynyrd. Ronnie and Allen would have approved.
Set down for lunch.looked to my left and then told my wife ,I think we’re gonna be murdered.most awesome dudes I ever met! Still a fan .listen almost every day
Like Chris Stapleton! Blackberry Smoke Carry on the Great Southern Rock and Roll! With a little down home country! Got your ears on Harlan Kentucky! 👍🏁🐴✌️
Given the times we're living in now we need this band. Seems like a lot in this mix, a bit of 38 Special here, Skynrd, original Allmans, all rolled into an Internet age band with soul, talent and brains. Come to New Orleans ASAP please.
Love to see you guys play , here at the red white n blue festival in mountain home arkansas, today wishn you were here . We have lone star on. Stage today
Love that hand carved guitar I am a big Four Horseman fan.A band that couldn't get out of the gate, but these guys finally did. Funny how I compared these two bands and now they have there guitar
Thanks Farm Aid; Blackberry Smoke does it again; Charlie, Paul, Brandon, Brit and Richard: thank you for being so real and brilliant! Lili Kiki, best fan from France.
Hey thanks for your comment... just watching the end of the Homecoming Live in Atlanta. Long live BBS. See you at a concert one of these days. Lili Kiki.
So talented you are Brandon , The Turner Brothers, Paul and Mr Charlie Starr . I just saw them do this live a couple weeks ago and they are awesome as ever . I've been a fan for right around 10 years and if I was rich enough I would follow their bus and fly to Germany or the UK . I can't begin to explain how underrated I feel this band is . They sound so good live and I have an awesome time watching them do it . I do wish they would put "Like I Am " back into the set list . I also love "Son of a bourbon" and "Prayer for the little man" which they played both frequently early on. Hearing them go into "Mississippi Kid" an old Skynyrd song recently was very cool and very well executed. See ya all soon BBS .
Excellent band! My guitarist turned me on to these guys :) I'd give my left nut to get my hands on that sweet old Jazz bass! It'd be painful, but well worth it lol. Thanks for posting!
Every once in a while, a band comes along that hits you just right. For me, it's Blackberry Smoke. These guys' songs have gotten me through some of the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows, but none of them quite like this one. "Ain't Much Left of Me" became one of my favorite songs the first time I heard it, but I came across this version a few days after my mom passed and it made it so much more personal to me, as they incorporated "Amazing Grace" and Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds"- the song my daughter sang to my mom when she was in the hospital. Words can't express the feeling I get when I hear this live version.
I'm sorry for your lost. Yet how amazing a find this must have been. As if it were compiled just for you. Then again , you never know. It may have been influenced by someone above who loves you and watches over you still..
Blind melon for me but these guys are amazing!
Same with Billy Strings,Marcus King that are killer Singer-Songwriters and add in the hands of god on a guitar.
Thank God there's still real musicians left in this world...
A dying breed sadly!
Im with you on that! Real music from real people playing real instruments
JUST SAW THESE GUYS IN OMAHA, NE AT THE "STEEL HOUSE" AND THEY KILLED IT!!!!!! JUST AN AWESOME GROUP!!! NO BULLSHITTING AND JUST PLAYED MUSIC!!!
Any time you open a song with a few measures of Amazing Grace you can’t go wrong! God Bless BBS❤
These guys are so talented and in person they are amazing people! Love em.
Carrying On the Southern Rock with Country music. Adios 🐴🦌🌄
Music keeps me together. Lost a son to depression. No answers for you, but prayers for your healing.
Stay strong!
Well my fall from grace was a sight to see.
This band proves to me that too much great music passed me by while i was wrapped up in own world. Reminds me to stop and listen to everything I can so I get the chance to hear bands that have this amazing level of pure hard working, earned talent. And not too many bands are this tight, together as one when they play. Thank you Blackberry Smoke for all the work you have done to spread the magic of music to the world...never stop. Please stay healthy and safe. That goes for everyone...
One time in Illinois back in the early eighties, I ventured down the State to my friends Dads farm. We were out banging gears in an old GTO when I made a nasty comment about the farmers not leaving tree lines along the roads. He said to me; "Don't bad mouth the farmer with yer mouth full!" It stuck til this day and beyond! YAH Bless the Farmer!
You guys are awesome better than this the music I'm 65 don't get any better than this music the life I have been living every road I have went down to in life we all haven't experience and listening to blackberry smoke always one of the best
Keeping southern rock alive and throw in some Bob Marley for good measure, damn these guys are good.
This song got me thru after my serious suicide attempt and spent a lot time hospitalized came home fragile this helped like these guys a lot
Mickey Kindley music heals stay strong
Hope you're feeling better. I've been there too.
God bless
Hope you are doing better. Blackberry Smoke music helped me alot too with people and events I wished I could have changed for the better but could not. I learned it was time to care for me through it all. Hang in there ok?
I know what you meen, mine was "NO WEAPON" by Bryann Trejo Its a really uplifting song too. 🙏 And please don't feel alone, this world is HARD and full of evil but it cant "rain" all the time. Stay as positive as possible. P.S. The song "A CHANGE IS GONNA COME" was number 2 on my list of helpful songs I could relate to when I was at that point in my life. I couldn't tell you how much "healing" power music has had on me.
Glad you made it out 😊
I can't claim this band for myself or my wife. We didn't discover them in 2000 or b4.
But GAWD at 55yo, we appreciate these guys.
Ottawa, Ontario
As the guy who passed out at a concert they had at the Ryman, when I woke up, this was the song playing. I love it.
You don't find many bands this good in life. Charlie Starr is a badass!
he reinvented rock and god damn roll.
Pottery27 ya sir! as me and my dad say, these guys are nasty!
I would defiantly pay to go see them.
I agree. His real name is Charles Gray and he's from my small hometown in Eastern AL Lanett, AL. and wrote "One Horse Town" about it. He is amazingly talented!!!!!
@@BrianCarnevaleB26 in a heartbeat! :D
"Ain't Much Left of Me" closes the wonderful concerts of BBS, a group of fantastic and true musicians, for a long time... 🙂
I only recently discovered these guys and love the proud southern flavor of their music! I grew up on Skynyrd,Blackfoot,Outlaws,.38 special,Tom petty so the more I hear of them the better I like what their laying down
You can’t best these guys 👍💥👊🏼
You need to look up Charlie Start's renditions of Tom Petty'sYou Got Lucky.
Got to see them this past weekend and they still got it easily top 5 of all time performances I've seen in person. Theyve been rockn this part of Michigan for 22 years! 🤘
You’ve gotta see these guys live. They put on one helluva show.
Grew up with all the old southern rock band's. So nice to get some of that great music back today. Keep rocking it out BBS.
Me too. I totally agree. This is dang good music. Great band. One of the best I've ever heard. From way back then ,up to this day.
How the hell do you sprinkle a Marley classic into this song?! Awesome. These guys are the genuine article.
As well as Amazing Grace...
Charlie and the boys can cover anything
Funny how Life is..
Sure did fit it didnt it lol
saw these guys last week in Spokane Wa. - I've been to 100 + shows in my time and these guys are tied for #1 one - I wish I would've know about them 15 years ago . Keep on with GREAT performances Charlie and guys - Love from N. Idaho !
Best band in the land..... Period
I'm telling ya all . Amazing band . U ain't a gonna here nuttin this bad ass. Can I get some love fer this band.
yep
Life's story. "I'm still holding on, but there Ain't much left of me!!!!"
Alanna Harper I’m sure you have plenty more!🙂
This is my anthem too. I started 2020 almost losing my right eye. Vision is gone and the stitches are permanent.
Charlie Starr is the real deal and the band around him is LEGIT!!
Been a fan since 1999......Met them personally 3 times and also spent some time with Richard's two boys who gave me some of their personal guitar picks. best live band period.......Spread the SMOKE brothers and sisters!!!
Devil on my heels saved but tried keep great music coming 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🥃
Southern Rock, Southern Charm, Southern Gentlemen - it does not get better than that, smashing performance
A really authentic Southern Rock band. A bit Country , slight pop. They sure can play...
Awesome!!🎶🎸🎤🎹🎼🥁🎵💕💕✌🏼🐎🐎🐎
It's a bit country and black crowes and Marley mixed.. I love these guys, and dude can jam
I am 60 years old. Been in to music big time since I can remember. These BLACK BERRY SMOKE Guys sit right down on my DANA. NONE BETTER.
Charlie Starr may be the best front man there is in music..
Amazing Grace...Angels in disguise or training are everywhere....some among us...others within us
Beautifully said my friend , beautifully said.
Sorry..totally unbiblical. Angels are CREATED beings by God. You don't train to be one or have one inside you.
Just when I thought about the gist of a southern style you hit with the Bob. Awesome bunch of lads you are.
They are on my Southern Rock Wall of Fame
Charlie for President!
My god ... you put together big guitars with old-time country and you get Blackberry Smoke ... f*ck yeah!!!!!
So much talent. I can sure identify with these lyrics and melody. Wow he's so awesome 😎💥
I love this beautiful guitar he's playing. This band is greatness, bringing it!! Love this live version. They're so talented most of their stuff sounds better live than on the album. Although I encourage ya'll to do both, buy the music and see them live!!
Lynne Loftis Yeah, love that guitar
Best sideburns in the business (those are Greg Allmann level sideburns). And a cool-looking engraved guitar. This is a terrific song.
Being a music lover, I am embarrassed to admit, but somehow I've missed knowing this group until a year ago. They are Kick Ass. I'm normally a purest but they cover some of my old favs. and I gotta say "Right Frick'n ON!!!"
Me also sir but thank God I happen to have discovered them scrolling through UA-cam by accident they are friggin awesome
How come country bands are the only ones making quality roxk music anymore?
Drummer looks just like "Bobby" from Sons Of Anarchy!! This band is sooo great and the BEST, most LEGIT southern rock band since skynyrd. Ronnie and Allen would have approved.
I miss Ronnie and Allen
You got that right. Sho got that right!!!
Awesome song great southern rock and roll
Every time I hear BBS after a few months, I realize again, just how much I love them.
I came across BBS doing this song on fb, and now I have all their cds. They're all good!
Set down for lunch.looked to my left and then told my wife ,I think we’re gonna be murdered.most awesome dudes I ever met! Still a fan .listen almost every day
Absolutely Beautiful...
#BestBandInTheLand
Musical Genius
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Real talent in this great band Blackberry Smoke !!!
Finely tuned machine, runnin’ hot on high octane!! Awesome 😎
By God a round took 2/3rds of my liver, blown up n burned over 70% of my body but by God I'm still above ground n I thank u fellas.
You're a hero in my eyes. ❤
@@MusicKatie70 ur to kind ma'am just lucky though heroes never see home again. I love ya MusicKatie70.
Ricky Palmer hang in there bro. And she was right.
Like Chris Stapleton! Blackberry Smoke Carry on the Great Southern Rock and Roll! With a little down home country! Got your ears on Harlan Kentucky! 👍🏁🐴✌️
I was today old when I discovered this band.
Got me a history lesson in the slide guitar - GOD BLESS OUR FARMERS! I LUV U BLACKBERY SMOKE
Excellent band performance
I grew up in 70's music..These guys were there, somewhere in the ether...
Nice! Man, I love these guys. They remind me of the love child of The Band and Black Crowes! By the way, Chalie's Tele is sweet!
J. Cheek Oh yeah, they’ve definitely have the BC vibe. Too bad the brothers split up, that’d be a bad ass tour duo!
Watch some of the videos for the 80s band The Four Horsemen and you'll catch a glimpse of that very same guitar being played by Hagis
Best band ever
I am a Very Large Fan Of This Band.
where is the love button,what A band 🤘🤠🤘
Great band and they don't make em like this anymore. 💕
Not much better than the outright greatness of Blackberry Smoke.
Best in the business !! Singer Songwriter Performers,,,,,BBS Rocks. Too Rock for Country, Too Country For Rock!! You Decide. Rock On Charlie & team.
my new favorite band! I only wish i found out about them sooner, lets get em famous!
I can't believe i just discovered bbs like three months ago. Very impressive, can't wait to see them live.
i only found these guys recently, instant fan. it's great finding new music. BBS is everything that i love about Skynyrd & the Allman bros,
Given the times we're living in now we need this band. Seems like a lot in this mix, a bit of 38 Special here, Skynrd, original Allmans, all rolled into an Internet age band with soul, talent and brains. Come to New Orleans ASAP please.
outlaw country alive and kicking
My new favorite band these guys rock keepem coming from Kentucky
Go Big Blue!...lol
One of the best Blackberry Smoke songs ever
All you people need to listen to Charlie and bbs ! It's the only true thing out there now!!! WBR out
That bass sound is great. Gotta love that Orange sound.
I seen these guys in huberheights ohio friday aug 10th 2018 these guys kick some serious ass ...
I saw them the next night in Cincinnati , great show. The first time I saw them they opened up for Jamey Johnson , can't see them enough.
I saw Black Berry Smoke the 1st time on the Lido deck of 2010 Simple Man Cruise. QUITE THE SHOW TO SEE!!
You guys are doing a great job don’t change anything you’re doing just keep on doing what you’re doing
I am putting it in my will to play this beside my plywood forever-box before its covered in dirt. Seriously. Spirit will live happy then.
What a beautiful song
First time I heard of blackberry smoke was awesome and need more
Blackberry Smoke, the best ever! Luv y'all BBS long live forever.
Seen this band open for jackyl in 2001 I knew something was special
Love to see you guys play , here at the red white n blue festival in mountain home arkansas, today wishn you were here . We have lone star on. Stage today
Love that hand carved guitar I am a big Four Horseman fan.A band that couldn't get out of the gate, but these guys finally did. Funny how I compared these two bands and now they have there guitar
If you watch the rig rundown he talks about how he got that guitar and Haggis always tries to get it back lol
It is a beautiful guitar indeed
I've always wondered if Charlie Starr and Frank Starr were kin
My fall from grace was unreal. Bless y’all BBS
Love love love this band. Seen them live they are awesome. Loving the guitar Charlie!
These guys were my first ever concert in upstate SC.
Thanks Farm Aid; Blackberry Smoke does it again; Charlie, Paul, Brandon, Brit and Richard: thank you for being so real and brilliant! Lili Kiki, best fan from France.
Hey thanks for your comment... just watching the end of the Homecoming Live in Atlanta. Long live BBS. See you at a concert one of these days. Lili Kiki.
Thank you!! You guys are tight ! Been listening to you for along time...thank you Brothers. I miss seeing you. Keep it going🙏🏼🙏🏼💃❄️❄️🤘🏻🤘🏻❤️❤️
Wow just beautiful as you can imagine. I love all of you 🙏.
I from brazil, brack berry smok fantastic band
Awesome!!!!! Hallelujah brothers and sisters. Thanks so very much for sharing and caring. God bless you all ♡ from texas
❤😍❤ ... and that guitar is effing gorgeous.
So talented you are Brandon , The Turner Brothers, Paul and Mr Charlie Starr . I just saw them do this live a couple weeks ago and they are awesome as ever . I've been a fan for right around 10 years and if I was rich enough I would follow their bus and fly to Germany or the UK . I can't begin to explain how underrated I feel this band is . They sound so good live and I have an awesome time watching them do it . I do wish they would put "Like I Am " back into the set list . I also love "Son of a bourbon" and "Prayer for the little man" which they played both frequently early on. Hearing them go into "Mississippi Kid" an old Skynyrd song recently was very cool and very well executed. See ya all soon BBS .
Great Guitar Love It
Isso sim é banda, muito bom .viva o rock!!
Excellent band! My guitarist turned me on to these guys :)
I'd give my left nut to get my hands on that sweet old Jazz bass! It'd be painful, but well worth it lol.
Thanks for posting!
I am always left speechless watching these guys. Everybody needs to be thankful for that!
=D
My band for a lot of years now...
Agreed, now if the show up to the great white north.....
@@beerwiser143 I saw them at first Ave. and the Minnesota Zoo......best show I've been to by a very long shot.
Came across these guys a couple years ago. They're awesome!!!
I will crank you guys up at my booth before show starts , turn people on to your music do the same at the lake.
Great band. Hugs from Poland
Keep it going for ever.I remember when it all started in the 80s.thank you. 💕
Abaixonada pela banda ... não me canso de escutar "One Jorse Town"
This song is my story from the past