A Beer with Adam Hood, Brent Cobb and Charlie Starr

Singer-songwriter Adam Hood spent the last week of August 2020 recording his new album at Capricorn Sound Studios. He, along with producer Brent Cobb and Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr, took some time out from recording to chat with Aaron Irons of Sound and Soul to talk about the album, recording at Capricorn, guitars, COVID-19 and making music with a message.

[@IvanLendl87]

Brent, Charlie and Adam are first-rate - as songwriters and certainly as people. Three great Southern men right here.

[@kimartist]

I have NO idea how I got subscribed to this channel... I have NO idea who these people are... I have never heard of this radio station... BUT I enjoyed the interview! 😅

[@jo1995able]

Great interview! Must say I absolutely love Charlie Starr, his playing is legendary, would love to hangout with him maybe jam with him someday!! God bless y’all from over here in Oklahoma!

[@TallapoosaOutdoorAdventures]

Three of my favs by far...

[@mandymanning3678]

Dude i didnt even realize that was charle starr man i glad he figure out is bread lol😁

[@louieo.blevinsmusic4197]

Born and was raised in the heart of Georgia until my family moved to Savannah when I was in maybe 4th grade. Hell, bout to release my 1st album and I’m dying to playing at the Hummingbird…. I never knew this studio existed. Nada clue. Def gonna check this place out and read up on it. Thanks for the interview, btw. Big fan of Brent.

[@leftymike5625]

Can't wait for that album.🤘

[@claritywindowcare8744]

I swear that I'll see Adam live someday, That Leslie in background is old school awesome

[@standandfight5573]

I played a showcase with Blackberry Smoke in Nashville once, it was us, The Lovin 44s and a brother band of our's from Birmingham called Caddle who got us hooked up with their management at the time and we were in the warm up spot that night and Charlie and them were doing the middle set, I think they had someone coming down to see them as well. This was before they recorded the record in Nashville and they were still touring in a van on the first record with Sanctified Woman and Freedom Song on it. Anyway Charlie was such a great guy and we bonded and chatted for a bit over The 4 Horsemen bc he was wearing a 4 Horsemen T shirt and we were playing a cover from their record called Moonshine that night to fill out our set. We traded numbers and talked a few times along the way some more but they were playing a gig at a club out in the woods in Dadeville Alabama one night and I went up to see them bc it was just an hour away from my house. I asked Charlie that night "man do you not worry about being labeled a Southern Rock Band, because everyone in Nashville has been telling us that's a problem for us and none of the labels want to touch anything that is remotely doing a southern rock thing" Charlie says "no man not at all, we wear it proudly and promote it that way". I thought how cool it was that they weren't afraid of the Southern Rock label at all, but the reason I asked him that was because I just returned from a meeting at ASCAP the week before where I went up for a listening session and the publisher dude who was attending the session from Carnival Publishing, who just had a song placed with Kenny Chesney called "Shiftwork," which was written by a guy from my hometown actually, and because the song I played them one from our record called "Spotlight" that was a southern rock sound and had a line in it that said "it's s southern thing" he just tore it apart in front of all the other writers saying nobody wants to hear songs talking about southern pride. When I left that meeting that day and got in my truck the radio station I had on played Tim McGraw's "Southern Voice". Like literally right when I turned it on. I was so pissed in that moment. The dude even said the band and production sounded great, but he just got all worked up over that lyric or whatever. As time went by we had member changes starting to hurt our progress but about a year and half later Charlie and the band had their first video on CMT. Which was even more of a sign for me that the moral of that story is don't listen to dudes like that guy who hammered me for our song not being something that wasn't immediately current in his mind. People like that might be in the industry and they might be beneficial for you if they hear something they want to shop but they don't think ahead for what might be coming down the road and they can be very detrimental to young bands and songwriters bc they refuse to see something being the future. Now we have seen a resurgence of Southern Rock since Blackberry Smoke and I could just kill that dude bc what he told me that day started some of my bandmates to reconsider what we were doing and they started bailing out. I wish I had gone back and we had stuck it out because we right there with BS wanting to bring in a new thing. Our management started defining us and Caddle as "Red Dirt Country" to the labels trying and avoid any connection to being labeled Southern Rock and both of our bands were going down hill after that. It wasn't long and what they were calling Bro Country was hitting, and when that happened I thought "well there's some more guys making it with the sound we were putting out before anybody and I didn't see Carnival Publishing involved with any of it. I'm proud to see that Charlie and them stuck to their guns and of course the rest is history now. Just wish we had done the same and not gotten disheartened by the opinion of one jackass from Carnival Publishing. Dude was from Alabama too which makes me even more annoyed by his ignorant opinion because he even said that day " I'm from Alabama too and I love that stuff but it ain't gonna sell because nobody wants to hear that anymore". Advice to all the young bands out there, don't listen to dudes like that, stick to your guns and keep going with what your doing because if your songs are good and you stay after it, people will come around to you and prove dudes like that wrong for you.

[@jamiebell2164]

What was your band called? I kind of know Eric Watters from Caddle!

[@patrickleducwinter8209]

beautiful person with great talent

[@pedraw]

Form a new band........The Idol Thumbs.

[@user-rw6rj6kn8r]

I have keys. Good one Charlie!👍

[@loontil]

Let's hope the light beers were untouched

[@jrchanning]

LOL Idle Thumbs :D

[@justinmorrow6920]

Root beer my ass that's a gold top Busch can of the 16oz variety.

[@bddmhopp5]

Charlie don’t drink