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Hitman Talks to Chris From Black Stone Cherry · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  What's going on? It's hit man with you and I've got on the phone
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  with me. Chris Lead, singer of Blackstone Cherry. Hey, brother,
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  how you doing? What's up man? How you do it? I am
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  doing good. Now you're going to be coming to the American Bank Center happening
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  on April twentieth with Zz Top and Lenyard SKINNERD. Your album Screaming at the
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  Sky is now official. Well, it's been out for a while. Tell
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  us how's the tour going so far? Wen, It's been going awesome,
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  you know. I mean anytime you get the chance to go out and cool
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  with guys like that, it's something that you don't take for granted. You
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  know, those are the that we had posters of on our walls growing up,
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  So you know, to get the chance to go out and share the
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  stage with them every night is nothing short. It's amazing. Now your album
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  Screaming at the Sky, I've seen on some things that people have. Of
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  course, they've branded you pretty much. I guess you could say Southern rock,
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  would you say that? Whatever people want to calls I've always just called
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  it Blackstone Chair, But yeah, I mean we fit a lot of different
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  places with a different show things like that. You know so well, you
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  guys have been around for quite some time, because we've played a lot of
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  your other great songs from back in the day, including like in Our Dreams,
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  Me and Mary Jane again, White Trash, Millionaire, and much much
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  more. In fact, with the song Nervous that that's actually in our system
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  here, also tell us about some of the other tracks that are on Screaming
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  at the Sky. Yeah, Man, Nervous was the first single off that
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  we're running with when the Pain comes right. You know, this record is
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  is a very very you know, staky record. All the songs you know,
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  really really are there to make you think and and but not overthink,
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  just to kind of you know it is, but it's and this record is
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  just you know, I love the honestly behind it. That's good. Yeah.
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  Yeah, Well, I'm talking with Chris from Blackstone Cherry. His album
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  Screaming at the Sky is officially out right now, going to be coming into
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  down next week. On the twentieth at the American Bank Center was zz Top
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  and Leonard skinnered. Tell me how did Blackstone Cherry become a band? How'd
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  you guys get all together? What happened? Man? Kids? In high
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  school, you know, just with the common mindset and common goal of wanting
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  to play rock and roll together. Somehow we ended up together and it worked
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  out. You know, we're all still here playing. But yeah, man,
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  it's kind of, you know, a Cinderella story. So you know,
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  we're all friends from high school that they grew up and we kind of
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  our first real band was Blackstone Cherry. Wow, that's crazy. Now,
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  now you've been on a couple of other tours also besides Zz Tops and Leonard
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  Skinnered. Is there a tour or is there a band that you wish Blackstone
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  Cherry could be playing with, you know, liked co headlining with at the
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  time. Right now, is there another band that you would love to work
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  with? I mean, there's there's multitudes of band that we would love to
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  work with, you know, but I think right Dale, you know where
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  we're at, it's a pretty good place to be on top of Easy Top
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  and Skinnered. You know, obviously we'd love to have tourk with Aerosmith or
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  something, but it's not looking like that one's going to happen. But you
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  know, man, and really we just like to play anywhere people will accept
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  this and have us So what is the craziest thing that's happened to you so
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  far on tour? I mean Johnny bringing me and my little Bully up on
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  stage and my wife ur in Freebird to hold up the flags pretty pretty up
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  there for me, I be skinnered is my favorite bad? Well the time
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  show, Yeah, for you to get on up. No, no,
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  dude, you've been on tour. It's been You've been on the road for
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  quite some time now, so it's I can completely understand. I mean,
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  in fact, where are you at right now? I'm home right now.
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  I've been battling a few days bout with food poisoning, so oh man,
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  what what did you eat? Man? Some bad chickens? We head back
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  out Friday morning, so I'm just trying to get good and rested up.
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  Well, just make sure when you're getting some chicken at a truck stop,
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  make sure it's good next time. Right right, No, Jude, we're
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  talking with Chris from Blackstone Cherry Screaming at the Sky's or album. They'll be
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  in town on the twentieth with zz Top and Lynyrd skinnerd You know is one
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  of the questions I always ask all the artists that I talk to all the
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  time. Is you know, there's a lot of bands that are up and
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  coming and always you know, want to go on tour with the big bands,
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  want to get a record deal, you know, and next thing,
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  you know, be the next big thing. Do you have any advice for
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  those guys that are like clawing to try to get to where you guys are
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  at right now. I just keep on keeping on. You know, at
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  the end of the day, there's there's so many bands out there you're trying,
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  and so many you know, so many artists out there trying that you
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  know, you've got to keep doing your thing and do it your way and
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  do it in a way that people notice you. You know, we're at
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  least try to. Wow, that's so cool. Yeah, from Blackstone Cherry
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  looking forward to seeing you on the twentieth. Is there anything that you're You've
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  been to Corpus Christie before, right, Blackstone Cherry, they've been here before,
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  right, Yeah, we've been there a few times for sure. It's
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  always been great man, so a couple of times. Oh yeah, yeah,
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  So you know, because of well, even though you've had food poisoning,
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  is there any food that you're looking forward to eating while you're here in
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  Texas. That's the last thing on my mind right now, to be honest
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  with Okay, well you know what, get better, get some rests.
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  Looking forward to seeing you on April twentieth, Blackstone Cherry coming out with zz
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  Top Leonard Skinner. It's going to be a great show. Any last thing
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  to tell your fans, get out there early to rock with us. Man
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  the way you get to see all three bands and so