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The Bo-Keys: Heartaches By The Number
by James Nadal
There is an ongoing resurgence in retro-soul music, as contemporary artists emulate the style and sound from the golden age of soul and rhythm and blues. But there are still many of the original musicians from that era out there doing it, of which The Bo-Keys are a primary example. Delving deep into the sub-genre of country/soul, Heartaches By The Number is an outstanding set of jukebox favorites, recorded by the premier musicians of the Stax/Volt and Hi Records studios ...
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The Bo-Keys know how to set a Memphis groove. They ought to. The band's musicians have been doing it for some time. As I wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week (go here), the band was formed by bassist Scott Bomar in 1998, and the rest of the band's rhythm section are veterans of the Stax and Hi record labels in the '60s and '70s. In addition to Scott, the band features guitarist Charles Skip" Pitts, drummer Howard Grimes ...
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