THE SOUL BROS. INC: The Story Of The Soul Brothers Inc. TITLE – 2010 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: African Slide/ Git It/ The Devil Made Me Do It/ Girl In The Hot Pants
SOUNDBITE: “God told me to take it easy –‘Are you gonna go before your time’? But if good-looking women in hot pants kill me, I don’t mind dyin’!”
RATING: 5/5
Just when you were thinking there couldn’t possibly be any more grade-A dusty old funky-soul cuts lying around from the late sixties/ early seventies that hadn’t already been re-released, re-packaged and generally given the widespread reverence they missed out on forty-odd years ago, German label Tramp Records drops this thirteen-track collection from Texan outfit The Soul Bros. Inc. It kind of reminds me of that Dyke & The Blazers package BGP put out a couple of years ago – which was also funk-soul gold from start to finish although this, if the truth be told, is probably more accessible than Dyke. The story is an old one but familiar: a group of struggling young black musicians put out a couple of funk soul seven inches over a short few years around the tail end of the sixties and after brief, mostly localised, success they fade into obscurity in the early seventies. Forty years on, original band member Henry Boatwright has a phone conversation with Tramp Records and the blinding thirteen-track LP, every one a stone classic, The Story Of The Soul Bros. Inc. is the result. Big-sounding…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM
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