If I had to offer a summation of this album in one phrase, I would say that Holding all the Roses is Blackberry Smoke in its purest form.
When the music hits home so hard and heavy as it does on Holding All The Roses, who gives a holy hot damn how you label it, or what’s counted at its heaviest influences. Did that send this cultured and dignified country music critic recoiling away from the speakers, holding my tender ears more preferential to the dulcet moans of the steel guitar in abhorrent objection? Hell no. Where their last album The Whippoorwill from 2012 had surprisingly more country than what you would expect from a band labeled Southern rock, Holding All The Roses swings in the opposite direction, submitting itself to the holy ghost of the loud and resonant guitar riff and holding nothing back. Blackberry Smoke comes rip rearing out of Atlanta, GA with their asses on fire, delivering this power packed, rockin’, country-fried brand new offering called Holding All The Roses that doesn’t let up, doesn’t give in, and keeps spitting out flavorful hooks, delicious riffs, and infectious grooves one after another, all adding up to one hell of a good time worthy of immediate repeat and strong recommendations to friends and loved ones.
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