Founded: 4 / 6 / 2001
Location: United States
Black Stone Cherry is an American rock band, formed in 2001 in Edmonton, Kentucky. They were signed to Roadrunner Records until 2015; the band is now signed to Mascot Label Group. The band consists of Chris Robertson (lead vocals, lead guitar), Ben Wells (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Steve Jewell (bass, backing vocals) and John Fred Young (drums, backing vocals). Black Stone Cherry has released eight studio albums as well as two EPs, and have charted seventeen singles on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. Their latest album, Screamin' at the Sky, was released in 2023.
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"We're just a grassroots band, man."
"To really appreciate the next few minutes of banter, you just had to channel your inner 14-year-old pubescent schoolboy."
"Two girls make out with their naked breasts pressed together, which easily wins Onstage Behaviour Most Likely To Horrify Grandparents/Parents."
"You sign with a label, and you don't realise, but you're an LLC, a business, you've got to sell those songs."
Ol’ fashioned Southern boys keeping it deep, down & dirty.
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"Kentucky distils the BSC sound: it’s four guys remembering why they started a band."
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