Classic Rock

TAKING FLIGHT

3 BLACKBIRD

Alter Bridge From: Blackbird, 2007

“As songwriters, those are the moments you dream of,” Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy has said of the moment he and guitarist Mark Tremonti first listened back to the finished Blackbird – the millennial generation’s brooding, muscular answer to Stairway To Heaven.

Their epic anthem, the eight-minute title track of their second album, saw the Florida band emerge from a

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