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The Cadillac Three in Session

Country rockers the Cadillac Three join Bob to celebrate the release of their new album Bury Me In My Boots.

Country rockers the Cadillac Three join Bob to celebrate the release of their new album Bury Me In My Boots

The Cadillac Three proudly boast that they've sold out every UK show they've ever played (and they've played a lot!) and this exciting session shows exactly why! Straddling the middle ground between Lynyrd Skynyrd and Waylon Jennings, the Nashville natives are poised for a global breakthrough.

Jaren Johnston, Neil Mason and Kelby Ray have been friends and musical co-conspirators since they were kids. They've weathered their wild teenage years and even wilder tours, conquered Music Row - Johnston co-wrote Keith Urban's #1 single "You Gonna Fly" - and crashed on the couches of strangers in far flung cities. These boys have seen more ups and downs than a Smoky Mountain tour guide.

The Cadillac Three have emerged with a sound all of their own, a sound that hovers between radio-ready country anthems, hard-and-heavy rock and traditional Southern folk. You could call it country fuzz, you could call it hipster-billy, but when you boil it all down there's only one way to describe it: damn good music, as pure and refreshing as a country creek.

Built around Mason's thundering, melodic percussion and the sinewy intertwining of Johnston's guitar with Ray's lap steel, songs like "I'm Southern", "Days of Gold" and "Whiskey Soaked Redemption" on their self-produced debut bristle with energy and explode at a moments notice. Tracks like "Down to the River", "Get Your Buzz On" and "Back It Up" evoke the legends of Southern Rock - your Molly Hatchets, your Outlaws, your Ozark Mountain Daredevils - but they aren't nostalgic, aren't fetishistic reconstructions of by-gone eras. This the new sound of the New South, bigger and badder than ever.

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Thu 11 Aug 2016 19:00
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    Hey, Good Lookin'

    • American Heartland: Legends Of Country.
    • Sony Music.
    • 2.

  • Brothers Osborne

    American Crazy

    • Pawn Shop.
    • EMI Records Nashville.
    • 007.

  • Eric Church

    Record Year

    • Mr. Misunderstood.
    • EMI Records Nashville.
    • 009.

  • Miranda Lambert

    Vice

    • Promo single.
    • Sony.
    • 1.

  • Dan + Shay

    From The Ground Up

    • CD Download.
    • 001.

  • The Cadillac Three

    Runnin' Red Lights - Bob Harris Country Session 11.08.2016

  • The Cadillac Three

    Days Of Gold Bob Harris Country Session 11.08.2016

  • The Cadillac Three

    Graffiti

    • Bury Me In My Boots.
    • Big Machine.
    • 4.

  • Jake Owen

    LAX

    • American Love.
    • RCA.
    • 007.

  • Sam Outlaw

    It Might Kill Me

    • Angeleno.
    • Thirty Tigers.
    • 009.

  • Lori McKenna

    Giving Up On Your Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔtown

    • The Bird and the Rifle.
    • 001.

  • Zac Brown Band

    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔgrown

    • Jekyll & Hyde.
    • Zac Brown.
    • 001.

Broadcast

  • Thu 11 Aug 2016 19:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2