Black Stone Cherry release emotionally charged version of The Rambler

Black Stone Cherry have performed a version of The Rambler for TeamRock’s cameras. The track is taken from The Rambler, the follow-up to 2014’s Magic Mountain, and was a highlight o the band’s recent Carnival Of Madness shows with Shinedown and Halestorm.

The track, which was co-written by former Shinedown guitarist Jasin Todd, was performed for us by frontman Chris Robertson and guitarist Ben Wells, and means a lot to the band.

“There’s just something about that song,” Robertson told us last month. “I remember being in the studio and I was singing it and trying to keep back from crying the whole time, thinking about my grandpa and just being away from my kid and wife and stuff and I got to the last chorus and just had to stop.

“I’ve never had anything like that happen to me before. But it was definitely happening, and it was real. I can’t really describe it, but it got me.”

Kentucky is available for pre-order now. The band will return to the UK on July 24 to headline Sunday’s bill at the Ramblin’ Man Fair at Mote Park, Maidstone.

Fraser Lewry

Online Editor at Louder/Classic Rock magazine since 2014. 38 years in music industry, online for 25. Also bylines for: Metal Hammer, Prog Magazine, The Word Magazine, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Saga, Music365. Former Head of Music at Xfm Radio, A&R at Fiction Records, early blogger, ex-roadie, published author. Once appeared in a Cure video dressed as a cowboy, and thinks any situation can be improved by the introduction of cats. Favourite Serbian trumpeter: Dejan Petrović.