Bringing a swagger evocative of their adoptive home of Nashville, Tennessee, Bryant, and his gang certainly have a pedigree, as well as a career trajectory, that suggests they have staying power. But you know it's really over. No, rock music isn’t dying out. Johnston’s own career started in the band American Bang. If only we had a time machine to find out. There may be a huge disconnect between their lads-on-tour look and the music they play, but that can only mean it comes from that place music is supposed to come from: the heart. Like a revamped Lynyrd Skynyrd or Allman Brothers Band for the 21st century, The Cadillac Three think nothing of playing back-to-back gigs while criss-crossing the Atlantic. But that doesn’t mean mythology and romance are dead, that subversion and individualism are dead. They said, 'What are you talking about, Rock & Roll is Dead?' The problem isn’t a lack of quality music, its a lack of quality musicians, which is due to a lack of quality people. It's been a slow death. I don’t like to tell someone they’re wrong but I’m sorry I have to say you’re wrong on this. Stone Broken’s second album, Ain’t Always Easy, is jammed full of pile-driving riffs and massive choruses. NFL is dead. They wear their hearts on their sleeves and, after all, isn’t rock’n’roll supposed to be about having a good time all the time? Could they actually be the saviors of rock that the media, and, indeed, festival promoters, are so desperate to find? Last edit on Jan 25, 2019. They already have tunes and riffs big enough to fill arenas, which is half the battle. Michael Jackson still holds the top spot for the biggest selling non-compilation album of all time in Thriller, with around 66 million claimed in sales. 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