Poster Position: 18 Thoughts: Woah, this was entirely unexpected. I'd been mired in digital music hell for the past several artists, and here is a real deal analog groove master making it happen. This is full-on, old school soul music played with real instruments and soaked in the bad ass sounds of the originals. He's got two albums on Spotify, but it sounds like there are older albums out there that don't make the cut here. The surprising thing is that none of these songs appear to be covers. You'd expect that a band like this would have a killer Smokey Robinson or Sam Cooke cover among their repertoire (although maybe they do that live, I dunno). Soul revival, baby!
All ten of their most popular tracks on Spotify are from the 2016 album Hold On!, although only one of those breaks the 100k mark. That track "(Baby) Hold On" has 117k and is tight.
A little rhumba action to start the day. Or maybe that is a samba. I am not the world's foremost expert on latin rhythm names to attach to old school tunes. Whatever, it is fun stuff. Here is a slow ditty, "Something's Calling," which clocks in at 53k listens right now.
Homeboy is from England, and apparently has sung backup for the man, Van Morrison. The best part of these two albums is the tight arrangements, the horns, the sax, the drums and organ. It's classic and authentic and sounds super cool. Go jam the instrumental "Satchelfoot" and feel it.
Can't you see Austin Powers dancing to that song, tragic teeth flying and weird thriller hands splayed out? Yeah baby! Groovy. Fun music, we'll see if I end up seeing them, with Nathaniel Rateliff, St. Paul, and who knows who else doing the retro action at this year's festival.
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