Smokin’ aces

Blackberry Smoke leader Charlie Starr has told us about how he finally got to write with his old friend and former Buckcherry lynchpin Keith Nelson on the band’s new album, Find A Light (review p16).

“We’ve been friends for over 20 years but we’ve never worked together before,” says Charlie, who co-wrote the album’s I’ll Keep Rambin’ with pedal steel icon Robert Randolph (left) too. He was also inspired by two Fender vintage specials; “I picked up a really clean ’62 Princeton. It’s on several songs...and a ’63 Esquire makes tons of appearances too.”

When 6 April