JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound

A music group that is referred to as Otis Redding fronting the Stooges, JC Brooks surfaced from Chicago in 2007, generating a thrilling and explosive garage area, funk, and spirit sound. Comprising guitarist Billy Bungeroth, drummer Kevin Marks, and bassist Ben Taylor, a horn section known as the Lowdown Horns (Chris Neal and Andrew Zelm), as well as the charismatic frontman JC Brooks, who includes a history in theatre and acting aswell as music, the music group built a significant fan following using its ferocious and electrical stage displays. Brooks is usually a powerful performer, evoking remembrances of Redding, Wayne Dark brown, Sam Cooke, and additional soul greats, as the music group appears like, well, a sharp-dressed punk music group with horns. The group self-released Defeat of OUR VERY OWN Drum in ’09 2009, pursuing it 2 yrs later on with Want Even more on Bloodshot Information. In the past due springtime of 2013, the music group released the full-length Howl. The arranged was the first ever to chart, getting well in the R&B Albums Best 100. Howl was the band’s last recording for Bloodshot. After intense global touring, they do some intense self-scrutiny. Collectively, they made a decision to drop the “Uptown Sound” using their name, and increase right into a sextet. They renamed themselves the JC Brooks Music group. The unit authorized to the WEA-distributed Rock and roll Ridge Music label. This fresh incarnation joined the studio room, spending 1 . 5 years writing and documenting new materials with suppliers Josh Richter, Isaiah Sharkey and Steve Gillis, and with Ken Lewis combining. Regarding to Brooks, the finished Neon Jungle, was an effort at an album-length depiction of “one crazy, amazing particular date….” and released in the springtime of 2017.