Blackberry Smoke, which plays Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida on April 26, 2025. Credit: Photo by Daryl Bowen

Blackberry Smoke plays the kind of good ol’ Southern rock that makes you want to drink Jack Daniels, smoke cigarettes, and burn a Confederate flag.

The Atlanta band has been around since the early aughts and has already achieved what every Southern band hopes for—opening for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Now, they follow acts like Flo Rida, Soulja Boy, Village People and Plain White T’s as a Busch Gardens Food and Wine Festival 2025 headliner.

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This article appears in Apr 24-30, 2025.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...