As the upcoming holidays approach I have begun streaming Blackberry Smoke’s latest drop, Come Go With Us.

Charlie Starr calls it “the closest thing to a holiday song you will ever hear from us.” Starr also added, “it’s an old song but now it’s a new song.”

The song is about family and coming together even when sometimes the comings are as pleasant as our memories of them were. I feel that in my life more and more lately. It’s seems that the only time we get together with more than one or two or three of our people is for a funeral or something. Ever since grandma passed, it’s like I live in the same town with some of my family yet I don’t even see them unless I run into them at the grocery store.

It’s a song about the good times and the happy times and how much time has passed and what we are like now. I have cousins that are grown and had kids and gave me cousins that I have never even met.

It’s a song that’s definitely worth a spin. If it weren’t for Blackberry Smoke i would not have half the family that I have. In fact, the very first time I met my wife I realized just how big of a BBS fan that she was.. the first time I ever saw these brothers play live was because of her birthday and all she wanted was a trip to John T. Floores. I hope that tradition will stick and we can do it again this year. Yall come go with us.

Pancho.