Black Stone Cherry

No thats not a miss type - it is in fact a band and one hat I have recently become quite a fan of.  I came across their music after following an amazon recommendation based on the Theory of a Deadman album that i had ordered through them and after having a listen on spotify I decided to buy their album (Folklore and Superstition) and I have to say that I am pretty impressed. 

Their music is somewhere in the realms of Nickleback and the Goo Goo Dolls with a bit of AC/DC and even Motely Crue thrown in there as well.  If you look up their videos on you tube they obviously have a 1980's rock influence in their performance (it's a bit hair metal) and some of their songs but they are unapologetic about it - which I like, if you are inspired by it then be honest about it, even if people think that it is not cool.

I am not sure if I would have bought the album were it not for the ability to listen to a number of their tracks in full on spotify.  I know that there are a lot of artists and album producers that want to ban these sights as they feel that it is taking money from them, but I am a firmk believer that these sites actually help people to buy music that they normally would not.  If you can listen to something, cost free, and you like it then 99% of people will buy it.  Make people buy it first and they will buy one album (if you are lucky) and then if they don't like it - you have no hope of them buying another one as the investment on the hope that the next one will be better is not worth it.  In fact I would have thought that it would mean people were less likely to buy albums a they feel that they wasted their money buying ones they did not like.  Perhaps this is another case of the music industry cutting it's nose to spite it's face.