The band's show this Sunday at Paper Tiger kicks off a tour that will have it sharing stages with the Black Angels, the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
In a time where many have long yearned for the return of Frank Zappa’s eccentricity, When Horses Would Run proves itself to be a surprising gesture of experimentation from Being Dead.
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Brand New by Honey Made. Chances are the eight-foot scrim in the front window of Waterloo Records didn t register thanks to the graham cracker album art – and maybe just maybe a global pandemic. Inside the CD, producer (Steve Berlin of Los Lobos), engineer (Jim Vollentine), and studio (Texas Treefort) all make the credits roll, yet zero mention appears of the actual group turning soul-infused retro nectar into viscous ear candy.
Online, however, behold a nonet straight outta the Stax/Volt annals: three pieces of brass punctuating a trio of Black vocalists – Donald Ford Jr. and brothers Chris (also drums) and Willie Barns II – overlaid atop a triptych of Caucasian rhythm pushers (keys, bass, percussion). Party band proclaims the locals website, and indeed, several of the 10 tracks do a Dirty Sixth Street shuffle. Slick Eighties dance-and-drink-more Steppin Out and the naked drink-after-every-line funk thrust of Canadian Mist leave