Website design By BotEap.comFor the first notable rock and roll album, I thought I’d start with something relatively unknown. The band is the Soledad Brothers, the album Steal your soul and dare your spirit to move. Website design By BotEap.comThis is the second release by Detroit blues combo Soledad Brothers and for those unfamiliar with the band, it offers a great taste of their music, sound, writing style and what makes this band one of the best unknown bands in all the times. With a rough musical sound that sounds like it was recorded in a live club in the 1950s or early 1960s, The Soledad Brothers offer a unique blend of blues, roots rock, and folk, all wrapped in an exterior rough that is emphasized with recording techniques. Although their first album seems harder and rawer, this album offers a better variety of music as the band taps into their various influences. Early rock and roll is of course the focus and this little band rips rock and roll songs with a greater intensity than probably any of the original rock and roll could have imagined. Combined with Rolling Stones swagger and raw harmonica blasts, this album is one where you can almost hear the audience clapping and kicking their feet just like you would on a live stage. Website design By BotEap.comThe band’s blues influence and roots rock foundation is easy to discern, but like other garage rock bands to emerge from Detroit in recent years (notably the White Stripes), there’s a gritty sound reminiscent of to early punk music like the Stooges. , The Velvet Underground and MC5 (minus the politics, art and kinky lyrical themes). Interestingly, I would compare their music to stripped down versions of The Doors and Led Zeppelin but filtered through those punk influences. On this album, the melancholy bluesy track “There’s No Sunshine when She’s Gone” is especially reminiscent of Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks” and The Doors’ “The End” due to its mystical feeling and monotonous guitar riff. and wah guitar solo. The album is spaced with odd drum hits, which while more interesting the first time around, don’t necessarily detract from the album as a whole. With rock and roll roots at its heart, blues rough as bread and butter, and album highlights ranging from soft and folksy to brooding and dark, this album offers a perfect look at the Soledad Brothers in all of their lives. his rough guitar, harmonica. blowing glory. Where similar garage rock bands emerging from their recent renaissance tend toward the punk side of the spectrum, this album and this band are firmly in the roots rock and roll arena, even more so than their more well-known counterparts, the White Stripes. Website design By BotEap.comNow I understand that this album may not appeal to the casual listener. It’s far from the polished radio-friendly rock and roll/pop that’s popular these days. It’s even pretty far from the traditional blues of BB King and Buddy Guy. Instead, it offers raw emotion cloaked in scratchy guitars draped in gritty harmonica and played through a smoky haze. Imagine a small blues band playing in a bar joint and you probably have the right idea. If you’re a blues person, you might find it interesting to hear what the blues sounds like when distilled to its absolute essence. If you’re a rock and roll take a good look at the early days transplanted into the 21st century and if you like both then do as I do, turn up the stereo and enjoy. Website design By BotEap.comI offer this album as proof that rock and roll doesn’t have to be polished stadium rock to be great, and that sometimes the best show you’ll ever see is in a smoke-filled club with about 30 people. Website design By BotEap.comYou can find a full list of rock and roll features in one place with links to each article and albums in the fifth column Rock and Roll Monthly Feature on Squidoo.
Rock & Roll Feature: Soldad Brothers – Steal Your Soul
Website design By BotEap.comThis is the first in a series of Rock & Roll articles I’m writing for this site. I’m a rock and roll and I love the blues, so this column is a way of featuring a different album I like from those genres each month. In the future, I hope I can get other people to write similar columns about genres that interest them. If you are interested, feel free to contact me to contribute.
Website design By BotEap.comFor the first notable rock and roll album, I thought I’d start with something relatively unknown. The band is the Soledad Brothers, the album Steal your soul and dare your spirit to move. Website design By BotEap.comThis is the second release by Detroit blues combo Soledad Brothers and for those unfamiliar with the band, it offers a great taste of their music, sound, writing style and what makes this band one of the best unknown bands in all the times. With a rough musical sound that sounds like it was recorded in a live club in the 1950s or early 1960s, The Soledad Brothers offer a unique blend of blues, roots rock, and folk, all wrapped in an exterior rough that is emphasized with recording techniques. Although their first album seems harder and rawer, this album offers a better variety of music as the band taps into their various influences. Early rock and roll is of course the focus and this little band rips rock and roll songs with a greater intensity than probably any of the original rock and roll could have imagined. Combined with Rolling Stones swagger and raw harmonica blasts, this album is one where you can almost hear the audience clapping and kicking their feet just like you would on a live stage. Website design By BotEap.comThe band’s blues influence and roots rock foundation is easy to discern, but like other garage rock bands to emerge from Detroit in recent years (notably the White Stripes), there’s a gritty sound reminiscent of to early punk music like the Stooges. , The Velvet Underground and MC5 (minus the politics, art and kinky lyrical themes). Interestingly, I would compare their music to stripped down versions of The Doors and Led Zeppelin but filtered through those punk influences. On this album, the melancholy bluesy track “There’s No Sunshine when She’s Gone” is especially reminiscent of Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks” and The Doors’ “The End” due to its mystical feeling and monotonous guitar riff. and wah guitar solo. The album is spaced with odd drum hits, which while more interesting the first time around, don’t necessarily detract from the album as a whole. With rock and roll roots at its heart, blues rough as bread and butter, and album highlights ranging from soft and folksy to brooding and dark, this album offers a perfect look at the Soledad Brothers in all of their lives. his rough guitar, harmonica. blowing glory. Where similar garage rock bands emerging from their recent renaissance tend toward the punk side of the spectrum, this album and this band are firmly in the roots rock and roll arena, even more so than their more well-known counterparts, the White Stripes. Website design By BotEap.comNow I understand that this album may not appeal to the casual listener. It’s far from the polished radio-friendly rock and roll/pop that’s popular these days. It’s even pretty far from the traditional blues of BB King and Buddy Guy. Instead, it offers raw emotion cloaked in scratchy guitars draped in gritty harmonica and played through a smoky haze. Imagine a small blues band playing in a bar joint and you probably have the right idea. If you’re a blues person, you might find it interesting to hear what the blues sounds like when distilled to its absolute essence. If you’re a rock and roll take a good look at the early days transplanted into the 21st century and if you like both then do as I do, turn up the stereo and enjoy. Website design By BotEap.comI offer this album as proof that rock and roll doesn’t have to be polished stadium rock to be great, and that sometimes the best show you’ll ever see is in a smoke-filled club with about 30 people. Website design By BotEap.comYou can find a full list of rock and roll features in one place with links to each article and albums in the fifth column Rock and Roll Monthly Feature on Squidoo.
Website design By BotEap.comFor the first notable rock and roll album, I thought I’d start with something relatively unknown. The band is the Soledad Brothers, the album Steal your soul and dare your spirit to move. Website design By BotEap.comThis is the second release by Detroit blues combo Soledad Brothers and for those unfamiliar with the band, it offers a great taste of their music, sound, writing style and what makes this band one of the best unknown bands in all the times. With a rough musical sound that sounds like it was recorded in a live club in the 1950s or early 1960s, The Soledad Brothers offer a unique blend of blues, roots rock, and folk, all wrapped in an exterior rough that is emphasized with recording techniques. Although their first album seems harder and rawer, this album offers a better variety of music as the band taps into their various influences. Early rock and roll is of course the focus and this little band rips rock and roll songs with a greater intensity than probably any of the original rock and roll could have imagined. Combined with Rolling Stones swagger and raw harmonica blasts, this album is one where you can almost hear the audience clapping and kicking their feet just like you would on a live stage. Website design By BotEap.comThe band’s blues influence and roots rock foundation is easy to discern, but like other garage rock bands to emerge from Detroit in recent years (notably the White Stripes), there’s a gritty sound reminiscent of to early punk music like the Stooges. , The Velvet Underground and MC5 (minus the politics, art and kinky lyrical themes). Interestingly, I would compare their music to stripped down versions of The Doors and Led Zeppelin but filtered through those punk influences. On this album, the melancholy bluesy track “There’s No Sunshine when She’s Gone” is especially reminiscent of Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks” and The Doors’ “The End” due to its mystical feeling and monotonous guitar riff. and wah guitar solo. The album is spaced with odd drum hits, which while more interesting the first time around, don’t necessarily detract from the album as a whole. With rock and roll roots at its heart, blues rough as bread and butter, and album highlights ranging from soft and folksy to brooding and dark, this album offers a perfect look at the Soledad Brothers in all of their lives. his rough guitar, harmonica. blowing glory. Where similar garage rock bands emerging from their recent renaissance tend toward the punk side of the spectrum, this album and this band are firmly in the roots rock and roll arena, even more so than their more well-known counterparts, the White Stripes. Website design By BotEap.comNow I understand that this album may not appeal to the casual listener. It’s far from the polished radio-friendly rock and roll/pop that’s popular these days. It’s even pretty far from the traditional blues of BB King and Buddy Guy. Instead, it offers raw emotion cloaked in scratchy guitars draped in gritty harmonica and played through a smoky haze. Imagine a small blues band playing in a bar joint and you probably have the right idea. If you’re a blues person, you might find it interesting to hear what the blues sounds like when distilled to its absolute essence. If you’re a rock and roll take a good look at the early days transplanted into the 21st century and if you like both then do as I do, turn up the stereo and enjoy. Website design By BotEap.comI offer this album as proof that rock and roll doesn’t have to be polished stadium rock to be great, and that sometimes the best show you’ll ever see is in a smoke-filled club with about 30 people. Website design By BotEap.comYou can find a full list of rock and roll features in one place with links to each article and albums in the fifth column Rock and Roll Monthly Feature on Squidoo.