1 Black Country Communion
Enlighten
The third single from the supergroup’s fifth album, this five-minute odyssey pings between Joe Bonamassa’s beefy garage-band riff, Glenn Hughes’s spooky verse, and a galloping double-time section that leaves other dream teams eating BCC’s dust. “Nothing else sounds like this band,” says producer Kevin Shirley, and this expansive track proves bolder ambitions than drive-time rock radio.
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2 The Georgia Thunderbolts
Stand Up
They wouldn’t be the first backwoods longhairs to be tipped as the great new hope of southern rock, but their upcoming second album adds watertight evidence to the hot air, and is the standout moment on it.
