Sketching from a deep good of regional affects want Randy Newman, Allen Toussaint, and Alan Lomax, Richmond, Virginia-based singer/songwriter/arranger Matthew E. Light specializes within a meticulously crafted mixture of reggae-infused folk-gospel, tropicalia, swirling indie pop, and Stax-era R&B. Elevated within an evangelical home by missionary parents (he spent four years …

Not to end up being confused with Don Julian’s Larks, his post-Meadowlarks trio (whose large R&B strike in 1965 was “The Jerk”), or the Philadelphia-based spirit group called the Larks, this band of Larks goes back to the first times of vocal music, with root base in gospel music, and …

Though Krystol by no means achieved a knockout smash, their efforts being a middle-’80s feminine R&B act ultimately helped pave just how for afterwards luminaries such as for example Exposé and En Vogue. Furthermore to solidifying a unique group sound, each one of the quartet’s associates was with the capacity …