Description: Brother Strut, a new funk-soul band whose line-up has collectively performed on records that have sold over half-a-billion copies, have released their debut album ‘First Strut Is The Deepest’ on Brother Strut Records. The band was formed in 2012 by producer & sax player Stevie Jones, after previously been pitching pop songs to satisfy A&R men, who he felt were just churning out the same old stuff. This, Jones soon learnt, was not the route to happiness and decided to abandon all other music production projects and work on something that was driven solely by his love of funk, blues and, in particular, American soul music of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. With this basic concept in his head, Jones set out to find some of the best, and certainly the funkiest players in the world to make an album - and he succeeded spectacularly, recruiting Steve Pearce (bass), Frankie Tontoh (drums), Otha Smith (electric guitar), Melvin Duffy (electric guitar/pedal steel) and Andrew Murray (piano). Not only has this line-up played on numerous hit singles and albums, they’ve also worked for the likes of Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Madonna, Elton John, Sting, George Micheal, Robbie Williams, Al Green, Level 42, Amy Winehouse, George Michael and Don Blackman. The Temptations, Phil Collins, The Supremes, Ramsey Lewis, Detroit Spinners, Tina Turner, Robbie Williams, Jools Holland, UB40, Elkie Brooks, Chris Difford, KT Tunstall, The Waterboys, Joe Cocker, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Leona Lewis and Natasha Bedingfield. Between them, these artists have sold somewhere approaching one billion records - and the members of Brothers Strut have collectively played on over half of these. Jones purposely didn’t want to use only one vocalist on the album, as he explains, “The idea was that the musicians were the main focus, so I could chop and change the vocalists from album to album.” As a result, ‘First Strut Is The Deepest’ features five emerging talents on vocals; Megan Henwood (BBC2 award-winning artist), John James Newman, Ben Lee (vocalist/guitarist with Joe Brown), Mike Davies (guitarist/singer for Eliza Doolittle and Jessie J) and Sam Tanner. Tracklist 1. Bags Of Funk 2. Let the truth Spill Out 3. Metropolis 4. Blind eye 5. Vinyl is My Bible 6. Otha’s Tune 7. Somebody That I used To Know 8. Chicago 9. Not Your Fool 10. Trolley Dolly 11. Zaletnik
Price: 20 USD
Location: Pontiac, Michigan
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
CD Grading: Mint (M)
Type: Album
Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard
Case Condition: Mint (M)
Inlay Condition: Mint (M)
Producer: Stevie Jones
Release Year: 2013
Format: CD
Genre: Rock, Rock & Pop
Run Time: 38 min.
Record Label: Woodward Avenue Records
Artist: Brother Strut, James Newman, Mike Davies, Ben Lee, Sam Tanner, Megan Henwood
Release Title: First Strut Is the Deepest