Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr pays tribute to late Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington: “The song is not ‘Free Bird’ without [his] part.”
approached him with a personal request from the guitarist: Would Starr play guitar as Rossington and his wife Dale walked down the aisle to renew their wedding vows on the cruise ship? “I said, ‘What does he want me to play?’ She said, ‘He said to play the blues.’ And I got that because that’s where Gary came from,” Starr says, calling from Zurich, Switzerland, where Blackberry Smoke are about to perform.
Starr, however, made a spontaneous decision and chose “Amazing Grace” as the accompaniment. “After they walked down the aisle, Gary yelled over to me, ‘OK, play the blues now!’ and so I did. He came over and gave me a big kiss on the face,” Starr says. “I’ll carry that with me forever.”
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