Blackberry Smoke Drummer & Founding Member Was 57

Brit Turner, a founding member and the drummer for rock band Blackberry Smoke, died on Sunday (March 3). He was 57 years outdated.

Turner was battling glioblastoma, a type of most cancers within the mind, and in November 2022, underwent a surgical procedure to take away a mind tumor. The band confirmed the information of his dying through a social media assertion. “It’s with the deepest sorrow that we inform everybody that our brother @britturner13 has moved on from this life,” the group wrote alongside a photograph of Turner. “In case you had the privilege of figuring out Brit on any degree, you understand he was essentially the most caring, empathetic, pushed and endearing individual one may ever hope to fulfill. Brit was Blackberry Smoke’s True North, the compass that instituted the ideology that may proceed to information this band.”

The assertion famous that funeral preparations will likely be introduced shortly. “Thanks to everybody who has supported and been there for Brit and his household via this combat,” Blackberry Smoke wrote, earlier than encouraging followers to go to Reality Reduction’s web site to assist out Turner’s household.

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Blackberry Smoke was shaped in Atlanta, Ga., again in 2000 and consists of Turner, vocalist and guitarist Charlie Starr, bassist Richard Turner, guitarist Paul Jackson and keyboardist Brandon Nonetheless. After releasing their debut album, Dangerous Luck Ain’t No Crime, in 2003, the group discovered success with their 2009 follow-up, Little Piece of Dixie. With their fourth studio album, Holding All of the Roses, Blackberry Smoke snagged their first No. 1 and largest gross sales week on Billboard’s Prime Nation Albums chart. 2016’s Like An Arrow additionally topped the chart. General, the band launched eight studio albums, most lately dropping Be Proper Right here in February 2024.