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Before arrival of Ellis Hooks within the 21st century blues and soul moments along with his now-signature meld of R&B, blues and Southern gospel, it seemed that the fantastic tales surrounding these musics had recently been told and passed into antiquity with the fantastic names assigned to them — Otis …

The Memphis-based retro-soul act the Bo-Keys trace their roots back again to 1998, when musician Scott Bomar was enlisted to make a supporting band for Sir Mack Grain. Bomar made a decision to revive the audio and sensibility of Memphis within the ’60s — the fantastic age group of Stax/Volt, …

Throwback spirit singer Ryan Shaw was created Dec 26, 1980, in Decatur, Georgia, to some deeply spiritual family. He started singing within the Pentecostal cathedral when he was just three years previous, and had taken his first single when he was five. Music, particularly, religious music, stayed an all-important section …

Southeast Washington, D.C. indigenous, and spirit revivalist Ricky Fanté, was weaned on limitless Motown, Stax, and Blue Notice records. The previous choirboy created his soulful vocal design during his teenager years, mimicking Stevie Question and Elvis Presley on community street edges. His like of gospel originated from the chapel, and …

Although Mofro is situated in the Florida city of Jacksonville, near where JJ Gray and Daryl Hance was raised, the band actually formed over the Atlantic in London. The Floridians had been in the uk to focus on a documenting contract that finished up heading sour. While in London, both …