![]() (Sucks to be Dreve!) Smith moved from Knoxville to Jacksonville, recruited new bandmates, and by 2003 Shinedown had released their debut album Leave A Whisper. They’ve been going strong since 2001, when Atlantic Records dropped lead singer Brent Smith’s band Dreve but let Smith keep his record deal and form a new band. Shinedown hail from Jacksonville, Florida, home of the Jaguars, the 2020 Republican National Convention, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and The Good Place’s Jason Mendoza. ![]() Have I heard hella Shinedown songs now? Yeah. Or at least, I’d never heard a Shinedown song before sitting down to write this article. Recently I had such an epiphany upon learning about the pervasive longterm success of Shinedown, a band whose music I have never once listened to despite making my living writing about music. I think we all recognize this on an intuitive level, but sometimes a reminder that you inhabit a bespoke cultural silo will come along and smack you in the face. Particularly in the social media era, we are all trapped inside a likeminded feedback loop of our own making.
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