Black Stone Cherry – ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’

Black Stone Cherry have progressed far beyond blaming it on the boom boom. Now, with an average age of forty, they’ve reached maturity and managed to compress a Southern thunderstorm into a twelve song package. ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’ introduces not only Steve Jewell Jr. on bass (formerly a member of OTIS) but also a distinct sense of place in the Black Stone Cherry narrative. Having co-written the album while on tour, Black Stone Cherry decided to ignore the prospect of a normal recording studio for ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’, instead opting for renting a 1930s theatre in Kentucky in order to make themselves seem small against the tsunami of their sound. It’s also a very intentional record, in spite of the staged spontaneity in the guitar riffs. “The thesis of this record is adapting and movin...