Buckcherry
Buckcherry formed in 1995. Whether the band’s name was a spoonerism of ‘Chuck Berry’ or the moniker of a drag queen acquaintance, ‘Buck Cherry’, remains undetermined.
Over the band’s history, over a dozen musicians have been in Buckcherry with lead singer Josh Todd being the only constant.
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A self-titled debut, released in ’99, was DreamWorks first album to go gold. Subsequently, original band members left and were replaced. A follow-up album was started but never completed.
Three years later, Todd and lead guitarist Keith Nelson reformed Buckcherry with a new lineup and released “15.” The double platinum set contained the crossover hit, “Crazy Bitch” and their first Billboard Top 10 song, the ballad “Sorry”
“Black Butterfly,” Buckcherry’s fourth album, an ’08 release, debuted at #8 on the Billboard 200, making it the band’s highest-charting album in the U.S.
Over the next thirteen years the band released five albums that did well but nothing spectacular.
Buckcherry released their tenth studio album, “Vol. 10,” in ’23.
The 11-song effort featured 10 originals including, “Let’s Get Wild,” “Shine Your Light” and “Good Time,” with the video filmed in L.A. There was also a bonus track, a cover of the Bryan Adams classic “Summer Of 69.”
“The formula for us is to have no fillers — having a great record from beginning to end. That’s what we want,” stated Todd.
Buckcherry’s eleventh studio album, “Roar Like Thunder,” dropped in ’25. It was recorded in Nashville with Marti Frederiksen, who had history with the band; producing “Hellbound” (’21) and “Vol. 10” (’23), co-writing the Top 10 hit “Sorry,” co-producing with Buckcherry the ’08 album “Black Butterfly” and co-writing three songs with Todd and Nelson for ’13’s “Confessions.”
Todd noted that Frederiksen “understands what’s special about Buckcherry, bringing out those elements in us.”
As a follow-up, the band released the official live video for “Blackout,” a song filmed in ’25 at the Rock The Mountains festival in Cumberland, MD. The original version of the song appeared on the “Roar Like Thunder” album.
At this point, Buckcherry consisted of Todd, guitarist Stevie Dacanay (Stevie D.), guitarist Billy Rowe, bassist Kelly LeMieux and drummer Francis Ruiz.
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