The Cadillac Three with special guests Black Stone Cherry are coming to the Sherman Theater, 524 Main St., Stroudsburg, at 8 p.m. Sept. 14.

It may be a daring move for The Cadillac Three to name their new album “Legacy,” but if any country band has the shared history to lay claim to such a weighty title, it’s the long-haired trio of Nashville natives.

Singer-guitarist Jaren Johnston, drummer Neil Mason and lap-steel player Kelby Ray have known one another since they were teens and have been sharing stages together for nearly 15 years. Last summer, they headlined their hometown’s most famous venue, the Ryman Auditorium, just a few blocks from where Johnston and Ray sat in high-school math class daydreaming about one day playing the legendary hall.

Johnston’s connection to the Ryman goes back even further: his father has been a drummer at the Grand Ole Opry since Jaren was a child. And now he has a son of his own, who, like his old man, will be well-versed in all the sounds that make up both Music City and The Cadillac Three, from country and blues to rock ’n’ roll.

So, yeah, “legacy” looks good on this band.

“We’re trying to build something and do it our way, which is always harder,” says Johnston. “If you’re going to leave something that people are actually going to remember, you can’t take the easy way. So we took all of our history, mixed it with the energy of The Cadillac Three and put it into a record that makes sense of where we’ve been and where we’re going.”

The constant throughout “Legacy” lies in the players: as on all three of The Cadillac Three’s albums, only Johnston, Mason and Ray are the musicians. There’s no guest keyboard player, no second percussionist and certainly no bassist. Ray holds down the low end on his lap steel. Especially on the standout track “Take Me to the Bottom,” which features Johnston reaching high for a breathtaking falsetto.

“’Take Me to the Bottom’ has the best bass sound of anything I’ve ever done,” says Ray, who also keeps things greasy on the intense “Tennessee.”

A thrashing love song, it evokes the stomp of ZZ Top — a favorite of TC3 — and features a lyrical shout-out to progressive country hero Sturgill Simpson, a kindred spirit of the band. No matter the influence, though, the trio stays faithful to their own unique sound throughout “Legacy.”

“Hank & Jesus” glides along with Tennessee twang; “Demolition Man” is distinguished by the space between the notes; and the swaggering “Cadillacin’” is a band anthem.

“We don’t put anything on our albums that we can’t re-create live,” says Mason. “If there is a TC3 rule, it’s that: keep it honest.”

Honesty, or authenticity, is a favorite buzzword around Nashville. But few artists come to it as naturally as The Cadillac Three. These guys couldn’t fake it if they tried. In the album’s title track, they offer a heart-on-the-sleeve testimony to what’s really important at the end of one’s days: love and a family tree.

When Mason and Ray heard “Legacy,” co-written by Johnston, they flipped, and pushed for it to be the title of the record.

“We’re far enough along in our careers where doing an album called ‘Legacy’ doesn’t feel presumptuous to me,” says Mason.

Not when you run through The Cadillac Three’s milestones. It’s all there, from boundary-pushing albums, Grammy-nominated No. 1 songwriting across genres and fan-favorite singles to sold-out club shows and massive festival gigs alongside Aerosmith.

“With this album, we’re continuing to build this thing we’ve created. We’re touring nonstop, headlining shows in the U.K., playing the Ryman, and putting out a new record,” says Johnston. “That’s a pretty good legacy so far.”

Starting the night off will be Kentucky rockers, Black Stone Cherry. The band released its sixth studio album, “Family Tree,” in April.

The album boasts BSC’s tried-and-true lucky number with its 13 songs, and like all BSC releases, features songwriting contributions from each member. “‘Family Tree’ showcases all of our collective musical influences and how we have taken those to create something that is truly our own unique Southern American rock ‘n roll sound,” said drummer John Fred Young.

The concept of family looms large in the world of Black Stone Cherry’s four band members. Young’s father, Richard, and his uncle Fred, are founding members of the Grammy Award-winning country rock ’n’ roots band, The Kentucky HeadHunters.

BSC’s four high school-aged friends — Young, plus frontman/guitarist Chris Robertson, guitarist Ben Wells and bassist Jon Lawhon — grew up honing their craft in the Headhunters’ Practice House, an abandoned property on the Young family’s farmland.

“We grew up in the Kentucky Headhunters’ rehearsal space,” said Young, “looking up at posters of Cream, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, the Stones, Montrose and the Faces. We were like kids someone took in a time capsule and put in the woods.”

Tickets on sale online at shermantheater.com and Ticketfly.com or at the Sherman Theater box office 570-420-2808.