Blackberry Smoke paid tribute to late drummer Brit Turner, who died in March, at an emotional Atlanta homecoming concert.
Blackberry Smoke's Charlie Starr. The Southern rock band paid tribute to their fallen drummer, Brit Turner, onstage in Atlanta on Friday.’s Charlie Starr sang about home in the slow-burn rock ballad “Azalea,” a track off the group’s latest albumFor Blackberry Smoke, home is Atlanta. Since forming in 2000, the Southern rock outfit has grinded it out across the country and around the globe as one of the premier acts of bluesy country-rock.
“This is his seat,” Starr grins. “And I don’t let anybody else sit here ‘cause I don’t want anybody’s strange butt sitting here.” Wiping away tears, Starr laughs when thinking about Turner — his brother-from-another for over a quarter of a century. “We spend more time laughing about things he said now than we do crying. His thing was humor,” Starr says. “He was important to a lot of people, not just me.
For the encore, Blackberry Smoke returned to the stage to roll through some of Turner’s favorite classic-rock hits with some special guests., a longtime friend of Turner’s and an Atlanta native, crushed Van Halen’s “Dance the Night Away,” while Jackyl’s Jesse James Dupree howled through AC/DC’s “Have a Drink on Me.”
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