Will release their new studio album Brighter Days on May 31 via. The sacred steel player has shared the lyric video for the LP’s lead single, “Second Hand Man.” The 10-track effort was produced by Dave Cobb (Sturgill Simpson, The Marcus King Band, Jason Isbell) and is described as a return to Randolph’s roots playing gospel music. “Dave Cobb is just a guy who likes to record good music and good songs,” shared Randolph. “He wanted to do something that was fun but it also gives you a gospel feeling. He knows the history of our band, coming from church and giving that fun church feeling to people.” Check out the lyric video for “Second Hand Man” below.
Robert Randolph & The Family Band have announced their latest studio effort, 'Brighter Days', due out on Friday, May 31st via Provogue Records. Dec 30, 2018 - I've grown to like songs and I like to jam within the song.” On Got Soul, Robert Randolph and the Family Band walk that line deftly, displaying.
Those who became aware of 's considerable musical gifts on either the awesome or on the underrated are in for a surprise. Expands the 's palette - on tape anyway, they've been doing stuff like this on the stage for years - stretching out from the blues ledge into gospelized, gritty funk and soul, and expanding those genres in the process. Using a group of producers from cut to cut, takes no prisoners in this wildly crazy and utterly joyous mix of musical forms and flavors. Sure, it's a bit slicker than, but not in any detrimental way. This is what these cats have been laying down for awhile now.
It's been their vision and they've finally brought it into the studio. The opening joint is a stomping wail called 'Ain't Nothing Wrong with That' that features chanting a refrain, handclaps, and killer female backing vocals as well as 's B-3, as 's pedal steel hovers above before coming in for the killing groove. But that's only a hint. In 'Deliver Me,' the sound of and come home to roost in the pile-driving rock and funk mix that once again is drenched in spirituality. The backing vocal chorus includes, and in a total vocal throwdown that either or could have arranged. Even in the love song - 'Diane' - the groove is thick and sweaty with just burning in his fills and a horn section laying down charts could have written.
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Yeah, now this is how to celebrate romance baby! But they can slow it down, too. 'Angels,' (co-written with and ) is a simple soul tune where plays with just enough muddy distortion to make his axe sound like something out of the Memphis Studios of Stax.
's B-3 lays down the church vibe as the band sings it sweet and spiritual. Much is made of 's guest spot on 'Jesus Is Just Alright,' but let's face it, is simply outclassed, here musically and vocally. A far better match for this nugget would have been the intrepid, who taught how to sing like that in the first place and can play guitar like a true Southern bluesman.
But whatever; if it gets the record heard by the general public, that's a plus. 'Stronger,' with on vocals, is one of the more beautiful songs on the set.
She is a gospel singer of the first order, full of deep feeling soul. Written by, and, will flip when he hears the genuine uplifting emotion in this tune, which has a true ability to bring folks together. He'll wish he'd written and produced it. The slippery backbeat in 'Blessed' is simply infectious and 'Love Is the Only Way,' with, and, works on the Southern soul groove despite the crowd, thanks in part to a killer horn chart and the alternating vocals, as well as 's tasty fills and the backing chorus.
Cuts like 'Thrill of It,' bring the funk and roll back with a vengeance, as much as 'Thankful and Thoughtful' brings that stroll to the backbone and lets it slip, all greasy like. And the final track, 'Homecoming,' brings us all back home starting all slow and sleek, bringing its gospel to the street where the monster funk comes to church.
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This is the song-oriented record that needed to make, and it in no way diminishes 's instrumental acumen; he's everywhere, man. Is the record some bands never reach the maturity to make, and has pulled this together on just their second studio outing. It's not only mature, it's a smoking slab of goodness and heat.