10225 - THE HOLMES BROTHERS - BROTHERHOOD (2014) (REPOST)
THE HOLMES BROTHERS
''BROTHERHOOD''
OCTOBER 21 2013
53:41
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1 Stayed at the Party 3:26
2 I Gave Up All I Had 3:11
3 Passing Through 2:53
4 You've Got to Lose 3:04
5 Lickety Split 3:41
6 Soldier of Love 4:28
7 Gone For Good 3:01
8 Loving You From Afar 5:09
9 My Word Is My Bond 3:02
10 Drivin' in the Drivin' Rain 3:21
11 My Kind of Girl 3:17
12 Darkest Hour 4:21
13 Last Man Standing 2:40
14 Amazing Grace 7:34
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Sherman Holmes/Bass, Vocals
Wendell Holmes/Electric Guitar, Vocals
Popsy Dixon/Drums, Vocals
And Additional Musicians (see bl2)
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REVIEW/AMG
by Steve Leggett
The Holmes Brothers deliver a mix of joyous blues, funk, R&B, and soul that resonates deeply with hope and personal redemption, a sort of sturdy and comforting secular roots music informed by the trio's precise, gospel-based vocals. Brotherhood continues to update that signature sound, featuring eight new Holmes Brothers originals and imaginative covers of songs by Ike Turner, Ted Hawkins, and the great Stax Records songwriting team of William Bell and Booker T. Jones.
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BIOGRAPHY
by Richard Skelly
The Holmes Brothers' unique synthesis of gospel-inflected R&B harmonies, accompanied by good drumming and rhythm-based guitar playing, gives them a down-home rural feeling that no other touring roots music group can duplicate. Brothers Sherman and Wendell Holmes, along with drummer Popsy Dixon (the falsetto voice), are the group's core members, although they occasionally tour with extra musicians. All three harmonize well together. The Holmes Brothers are so versatile, they're booked solid every summer at folk, blues, gospel, and jazz festivals, as they play a style of music that is a gumbo of church tunes, blues, country, funk, reggae, roots rock, and soul. Although people like Bo Diddley and especially Jimmy Reed were early influences on Wendell and Sherman, gospel music also played an important role in their respective upbringings.
Although they'd been performing in Harlem for years, The Holmes Brothers -- originally from Christchurch, VA -- have only recently become international touring stars. Thanks to a fair deal at Rounder Records, the group released five recordings for that label, beginning with a 1989 release, In the Spirit. When this album made waves and got them off and running on the festival and club circuit around the U.S. and Europe, they followed it up two years later with Where It's At (1991), Soul Street (1993), and Promised Land (1997). The group's career has been aided by the interest of people like Peter Gabriel, who recruited them for his WOMAD world music festivals in England and who also recorded them in a gospel context on the album Jubilation, for his Real World subsidiary of Virgin Records in 1992.
Joan Osborne was also a supporter of the group. Early in her career Osborne befriended The Holmes Brothers and eventually took them on tour as her backing band when she opened for Bob Dylan in 1997. She produced the group's first release on Alligator Records, Speaking in Tongues, in 2001. The group then released the seminal Simple Truths in 2004. Three years later, State of Grace, an album of both originals and covers (including ones by Hank Williams, Cheap Trick, Lyle Lovett, and Elvis Costello), came out. A fourth Alligator release, Feed My Soul, appeared early in 2010.
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BIO/WIKIPEDIA
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WEBSITE
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TO THE TOP
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''BROTHERHOOD''
OCTOBER 21 2013
53:41
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1 Stayed at the Party 3:26
2 I Gave Up All I Had 3:11
3 Passing Through 2:53
4 You've Got to Lose 3:04
5 Lickety Split 3:41
6 Soldier of Love 4:28
7 Gone For Good 3:01
8 Loving You From Afar 5:09
9 My Word Is My Bond 3:02
10 Drivin' in the Drivin' Rain 3:21
11 My Kind of Girl 3:17
12 Darkest Hour 4:21
13 Last Man Standing 2:40
14 Amazing Grace 7:34
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Sherman Holmes/Bass, Vocals
Wendell Holmes/Electric Guitar, Vocals
Popsy Dixon/Drums, Vocals
And Additional Musicians (see bl2)
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REVIEW/AMG
by Steve Leggett
The Holmes Brothers deliver a mix of joyous blues, funk, R&B, and soul that resonates deeply with hope and personal redemption, a sort of sturdy and comforting secular roots music informed by the trio's precise, gospel-based vocals. Brotherhood continues to update that signature sound, featuring eight new Holmes Brothers originals and imaginative covers of songs by Ike Turner, Ted Hawkins, and the great Stax Records songwriting team of William Bell and Booker T. Jones.
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BIOGRAPHY
by Richard Skelly
The Holmes Brothers' unique synthesis of gospel-inflected R&B harmonies, accompanied by good drumming and rhythm-based guitar playing, gives them a down-home rural feeling that no other touring roots music group can duplicate. Brothers Sherman and Wendell Holmes, along with drummer Popsy Dixon (the falsetto voice), are the group's core members, although they occasionally tour with extra musicians. All three harmonize well together. The Holmes Brothers are so versatile, they're booked solid every summer at folk, blues, gospel, and jazz festivals, as they play a style of music that is a gumbo of church tunes, blues, country, funk, reggae, roots rock, and soul. Although people like Bo Diddley and especially Jimmy Reed were early influences on Wendell and Sherman, gospel music also played an important role in their respective upbringings.
Although they'd been performing in Harlem for years, The Holmes Brothers -- originally from Christchurch, VA -- have only recently become international touring stars. Thanks to a fair deal at Rounder Records, the group released five recordings for that label, beginning with a 1989 release, In the Spirit. When this album made waves and got them off and running on the festival and club circuit around the U.S. and Europe, they followed it up two years later with Where It's At (1991), Soul Street (1993), and Promised Land (1997). The group's career has been aided by the interest of people like Peter Gabriel, who recruited them for his WOMAD world music festivals in England and who also recorded them in a gospel context on the album Jubilation, for his Real World subsidiary of Virgin Records in 1992.
Joan Osborne was also a supporter of the group. Early in her career Osborne befriended The Holmes Brothers and eventually took them on tour as her backing band when she opened for Bob Dylan in 1997. She produced the group's first release on Alligator Records, Speaking in Tongues, in 2001. The group then released the seminal Simple Truths in 2004. Three years later, State of Grace, an album of both originals and covers (including ones by Hank Williams, Cheap Trick, Lyle Lovett, and Elvis Costello), came out. A fourth Alligator release, Feed My Soul, appeared early in 2010.
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BIO/WIKIPEDIA
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WEBSITE
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TO THE TOP
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