Louisiana produces singers whose voices carry church in them whether or not the song is about anything holy, and this is one of the clearer examples working now — soul phrasing over songs that are structurally closer to rock, delivered by somebody who has been doing it since he was a teenager and has never needed a studio to sound good. He has spent two decades on a circuit of rooms this size rather than chasing anything larger, which produced an audience that treats him as theirs. Live the band is horn-driven and the ballads are where the room goes quiet. A Saturday in a Ventura hall with a flat floor and a real crowd. Music at 8:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Careers built entirely on the live room rather than on radio create audiences who bring somebody new every time.
Louisiana produces singers whose voices carry church in them whether or not the song is about anything holy, and this is one of the clearer examples working now — soul phrasing over songs that are structurally closer to rock, delivered by somebody who has been doing it since he was a teenager and has never needed a studio to sound good. He has spent two decades on a circuit of rooms this size rather than chasing anything larger, which produced an audience that treats him as theirs. Live the band is horn-driven and the ballads are where the room goes quiet. A Saturday in a Ventura hall with a flat floor and a real crowd. Music at 8:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Careers built entirely on the live room rather than on radio create audiences who bring somebody new every time.
Louisiana produces singers whose voices carry church in them whether or not the song is about anything holy, and this is one of the clearer examples working now — soul phrasing over songs that are structurally closer to rock, delivered by somebody who has been doing it since he was a teenager and has never needed a studio to sound good. He has spent two decades on a circuit of rooms this size rather than chasing anything larger, which produced an audience that treats him as theirs. Live the band is horn-driven and the ballads are where the room goes quiet. A Saturday in a Ventura hall with a flat floor and a real crowd. Music at 8:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Careers built entirely on the live room rather than on radio create audiences who bring somebody new every time.