Blackberry Smoke

Blackberry Smoke is a genre-defying group known for carrying on the tradition of southern country rock. Since emerging from Atlanta in the early ‘00s, the quintet—vocalist/lead guitarist Charlie Starr, guitarist/vocalist Paul Jackson, bassist/vocalist Richard Turner, drummer Brit Turner and keyboardist Brandon Still—has become known for a singular sound indebted to classic rock, blues, country, and folk.

This fluidity has paid off handsomely, in the form of two Billboard chart-topping country albums, 2015’s “Holding All the Roses” and 2016’s “Like an Arrow.” For good measure, the latter also topped Billboard’s Americana/Folk album chart. 2018’s “Find a Light” continued the group’s chart success, debuting as the best-selling Country and Americana/Folk album in the country and entering at #3 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and #2 on the Billboard Americana/Folk Albums chart.

The group’s latest release and the namesake of the upcoming tour, “You Hear Georgia,” was released in late May and has already reached the Top Ten of Billboard’s Country, Rock, and Independent albums charts.

This will be Blackberry Smoke’s first visit to Five Flags in more than a decade. The band previously appeared at the venue in October of 2007, when they opened for ZZ Top. That show drew more than 2,200 fans to Five Flags Center.