DEROBERT & THE HALF TRUTHS: I’m Tryin’ (2013) + Going Places video + Free downloads

The latest release from Nashville, Tennessee-based funk/ soul label GED Soul comes from house band DeRobert & The Half Truths in the shape of the twelve track album I’m Tryin’. The thing is, it nearly didn’t. Get released that is. Times are hard these days for indy soul labels and also bands too. While, on the plus side, hardship does tend to encourage a certain feel to the music (we’ll call it ‘soul’), on the other hand – funding production of a wax pressing is a bit tricky. So much so in this case that the GED crew resorted to funding the whole thing via a…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

THE GRIPS: Tennessee Strut/ Fancy Roll (2013)

It’s re-press time for the first ever release from retro southern funky soul label G.E.D. Soul which means that the Tennessee Strut/ Fancy Roll 45 by The Grips (an early incarnation of G.E.D. Soul’s house band DeRobert & The Half Truths) gets to see the light of day once more. Sounding decades older than their mere six years, both tracks bowl along driven by crashing percussion and the sort of…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DEROBERT & THE HALF TRUTHS: I Got Burned (2012)

Another cut on G.E.D. Soul Records demonstrating that the Daptone lot need to watch their backs in terms of whose got the most authentic funk-soul sound. This time around it’s Derobert & The Half Truths with vocal A side I Got Burned and instro B side Nashville Country Bump. It’s no lie to say that both sides ‘do the damn thing’ admirably and a measure of how convincingly ‘back-in-the-day’ this sounds can be ...READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM