If you ever enjoyed old-school soul and R&B, run, do not walk, to your nearest record store or keyboard and get this album: St. Paul & The Broken Bones' Half The City.
7 white boys from Birmingham, Alabama who sound like a cross between Percy Sledge and Al Green, only better. This band is so tight you couldn't put a toothpick up its collective ass with a sledgehammer. There's a real live horn section; to borrow from the liner notes because I agree - the guitarist is channeling David Gilmour and Steve Cropper - and Paul Janeway OWNS the vocals (not to mention the stage when I saw them Friday night at Riverbend). Very clean recording from the gang at The Nutthouse in Sheffield, Alabama, around the corner from Muscle Shoals Sound and FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, then mixed at FAME. This is Muscle Shoals music as it was in the heyday. Added bonus, it's available on vinyl and the pressings are very quiet.
If old school R&B has any place in your heart of hearts, this bunch is Not. To. Be. Missed.
7 white boys from Birmingham, Alabama who sound like a cross between Percy Sledge and Al Green, only better. This band is so tight you couldn't put a toothpick up its collective ass with a sledgehammer. There's a real live horn section; to borrow from the liner notes because I agree - the guitarist is channeling David Gilmour and Steve Cropper - and Paul Janeway OWNS the vocals (not to mention the stage when I saw them Friday night at Riverbend). Very clean recording from the gang at The Nutthouse in Sheffield, Alabama, around the corner from Muscle Shoals Sound and FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, then mixed at FAME. This is Muscle Shoals music as it was in the heyday. Added bonus, it's available on vinyl and the pressings are very quiet.
If old school R&B has any place in your heart of hearts, this bunch is Not. To. Be. Missed.
