Black Stone Cherry – Kentucky

Blasting forth from my computer’s meagre sound system, Black Stone Cherry makes a strong and immediate impression. There is a high level of accuracy there, and it is overshadowed by the raw power and the application of rise and fall within the music.

This is no monotone pelt of well-meaning enthusiasm, Black Stone Cherry’s album Kentucky pulses with a danceable beat and polish rising over the electricity listeners love to hear.

Five albums into their career, experience yields some very exciting tracks, appealing to the body, the brain and that other thing that more thoroughly appreciates good music: the soul.

Static electricity resonates but does not take over the sound, using the tricks of other genres and building a complicated mix of feels, with a special mention of ‘Cheaper to drink alone’, Kentucky is worthy of repeat. A few times. (SP)

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