Blackberry Smoke is gearing up to release The Southern Ground Sessions, an acoustic accompaniment to Find A Light, due out on October 26th, 2018. The Southern Ground Sessions will feature acoustic versions of five album tracks, as well as a rendition of Tom Petty’s “You Got Lucky” featuring Amanda Shires (Texas Playboys, Thrift Store Cowboys, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit). Today, the band shares a video from that collaboration.
“Not long ago, we went into Southern Ground Studios in Nashville to record some acoustic versions of songs from our album Find a Light,” explained Blackberry Smoke frontman Charlie Starr in an interview with Rolling Stone. “We had some special guests come in—the Wood Brothers and Amanda Shires — and while Amanda was there, we decided to play a version of ‘You Got Lucky.’ [It’s] just such an incredibly written song; it’s just perfect, as are so many Tom Petty songs.”
In addition to the Tom Petty cover, Amanda Shires is also featured on the live take of “Let Me Down Easy”. Other special guests on the album include Oliver Wood on Blackberry Smoke original “Mother Mountain”.
As Rolling Stone notes about the video,
The expanded version of Blackberry Smoke’s lineup captures “You Got Lucky” in a single live take, with Shires performing Benmont Tench’s signature synthesizer riff on fiddle. The choruses are stacked high with harmonized voices, while the song’s extended ending finds Starr and Shires trading solos. The result is a moving tribute to Petty, who would have turned 68 on October 20th.
Blackberry Smoke – “You Got Lucky” feat. Amanda Shires
[Video: Blackberry Smoke]
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[H/T Rolling Stone]