Blackwater Conspiracy

This County Tyrone, Northern Ireland act play whiskey-soaked '70s-inspired, blues- and country-inflected classic rock, their name being a reference to the fact that each bandmember was raised, or lived, close to the River Blackwater. They began, in 2006, as a hard-rocking band named Million Dollar Reload, and released two AC/DC-inspired studio albums, the second of which led to Phil Conalane, their gravelly voiced lead singer, being touted in 2012 as a potential replacement for Scott Weiland in the U.S. supergroup Velvet Revolver. After a dispute with Frontiers Records, repute...