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Friends of Bob live music co-op / November 2008 Newsletter 

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Please go directly to your calendar and mark Saturday, December 6 as a night you have to be at the Lafayette Brewing Company. We’ll have a soul/funk extravaganza with The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, an exquisite 9-piece 60s-style soul review complete with a 3-piece horn section, Hammond B3 organ, guitar, bass, drums, and the stunning vocals of Charles Walker. Soul music—that wonderful collision of rhythm and blues, gospel, pop, and jazz—is riding a wave of revival currently, and the Dynamites are as good as it gets.

         Charles Walker was active in the first wave of 60s soul, when he led a band called Little Charles and the Sidewinders, playing venues like the Apollo Theater and opening for the likes of James Brown, Etta James, and Wilson Pickett. Now he’s playing with The Dynamites. They will be in Lafayette after 3 weeks touring Europe and playing every night—in their words, they will be “as tight as a mosquito’s tweeter”!

         Charles Walker was hired by the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville for an event launching their major Night Train to Nashville exhibit a couple of years ago. It was there that he was “discovered” by Nashville songwriter and guitarist Bill Elder, who had written a batch of Deep Funk songs and was looking to put a band together. He couldn’t believe he had stumbled upon such a perfect old-school singer. The Dynamites were born! Their album Kaboom! is terrific—this promises to be a night of funfunfunk! Please join us and bring your pals!

Saturday, December 6; 8:00 p.m. (doors 7:00)

An Evening with…

The Dynamites

featuring

Charles Walker

Lafayette Brewing Co., 622 Main St., Lafayette

Tickets $10: available now at Lafayette Brewing Co., Von's Records, JL Records, and McGuire Music

Advance tickets by mail are $11. Send your check to:

Friends of Bob, PO Box 59, Battle Ground, IN 47920

Please provide your name, address, phone #, and e-mail address. 

“New York City has the Dap-Kings, the retro funk and soul band that recently backed Amy Winehouse. Nashville has the Dynamites, whose approach is about three-quarters James Brown — especially mid-1960s James Brown — with touches of Memphis, Motown and New Orleans. For its album “Kaboom!” (Outta Sight), the band’s guitarist and leader, Bill Elder, a k a Leo Black, has written strong, vintage-style songs, whether he’s tackling social issues (“Way Down South”) or immediate pleasures (“Can You Feel It?”) and arrangements that mesh a bustling rhythm section with meaty horns. The Dynamites have found a singer to put them across: Charles Walker, who has been on the soul circuit since the 1960s. His voice rivals better-known headliners; he’s an authoritative, gospel-steeped shouter and a dramatic ballad builder. It’s old-school music that works up a genuine sweat. “ The New York Times

 

Please help us publicize this show by downloading a poster from our website: friends-of-

 

“The Dynamites’ Kaboom! is just about the best deep neo-soul records you’re likely to hear this year. The grooves are tight, the mood is right and Walker has plenty of fight left in ‘im, even after all these years. Highly recommended.” eMusic

 

 “These ten songs, from the sinewy, low-rider hard funk of 'Slinky' (George Clinton, watch out!) to the uptown-struttin’, JB’s-styled grooves of 'Own Thing,' sound ageless and out of time.” HARP 

“With Walker's gritty but supple vocals riding atop cold-sweat, JBs-like workouts ('Come on In'), slinking Sly Stone-esque grooves ('Can You Feel it?'), and Funkadelic-ized cosmic slop ('Way Down South'), Kaboom! comes across as nothing less than a new dictionary of old soul, hard funk, and vintage R&B.” Boston Globe 

“There's no getting around it - this Nashville ensemble's funk-soul hybrid is downright explosive.”   Philadelphia Inquirer


“The Dynamites KABOOM! is a perfectly produced party from start to finish, full of intense, insistent funk and Walker's hard-won soul singing.” American Songwriter

 

"James Brown is gone, but Charles Walker and the Dynamites are carrying on. But the group isn’t just re-creating the music of a lost era, it’s giving old-school soul hyped-up, 21st century punch."    Boston Herald 

“You won’t hear tributes to ’50s and ’60s soul grooves better than those from The Dynamites.”  Boston Phoenix 

“Kaboom! Is right. [The Dynamites] can tighten up or bring it down with a stirring amount

of soul power.”         Austin Chronicle

 

“The overall vibe, straight from the canon of the late James Brown, is all about long, syncopated grooves that will make a dead man dance.” Winston-Salem Journal 

"Listening to Charles Walker & The Dynamites immediately whisked me back to Small's Paradise,1964. It's so wonderful to hear Charles' voice is as strong as ever." Bettye LaVette 

“It all comes down to layin’ down a groove that takes people to another place. That’s way The Dynamites will blow people away.”               Jojo Hermann, Widespread Panic 

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A huge thanks to the

South Street Smokehouse

for providing the food for our November show with The Gourds.

 

 

&         We are very grateful to Eli Lilly Tippecanoe Laboratories which has once again made a generous donation to Friends of Bob. Lilly is such a conscientious community-minded entity that we sure hope they are able to stick around!

 

&          Our next Organizational Meeting will be on Monday, December 1st at 7:30 at the Lafayette Brewing Co. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. We meet at the back of the first floor—by the brewing kettles. Come and get involved!

 

&         We Need Volunteers! If you are willing to help out at shows by taking tickets for half an hour, watching the dressing room entrance, or helping pack up at the end of the evening, please contact Brian Wagner, our volunteer coordinator, at bhwagner34@ – he sends an email to the volunteer list prior to shows asking people to sign up.

 

& We’re thrilled to announce our most recent booking. On Sunday, April 26 we will be presenting Richie Havens at University Church in West Lafayette!!! Harry Manx will play an opening set.

 

&         Please Do the Dues!!! Membership dues are by the calendar year—2008 dues are due! Your donations are crucial!!! Dues pay for this newsletter and provide a safety net for when admission charges don’t cover expenses. Please help us keep the music coming. Become a Friend of Bob! Dues are $10 per person. If you can make a donation above the $10 we would greatly appreciate it, and since we are a 501[c][3] not-for-profit organization, donations above the dues are tax-deductible and really assist us HUGELY in what we're trying to do. If you have an asterisk by your name on the mailing label, you have paid your 2008. If not, get your skates on! It’s almost 2009! The following people have sent in dues since our last newsletter:

Chris & Barb Brown

Sallie Cook

Keven Gipson

Martha Gipson

Megan Greene

Cathy Hayt

Dave Hewitt

Byron & Lynn Holland

Bill & Tree Huston

Teresa Moore

Dennis Murphy

Pam & Mike Murr

Wally & Jean Tyner

&         A huge thank you to the food volunteers for the lasts two gigs:

Linda Anderson

Margy Deverall

Keven Gipson

Kathleen Kitch

Anne Knupfer

Nancy Marshall and Dan

Sundeep Rao  

Robin Pickett

Suzy Rao

Meredith Richmond

Sally Ross

Lani Senn

Brian Wagner

Robin Vogel

Cindy Eberts

 

 Other music that's goin' round:

Lafayette Brewing Co.: 11/15: Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band12/13 Ekoostic Hookah; 12/31 Woodstove Flapjacks  

Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society, 1/18, Tecumseh Trio, Duncan Hall 3:00         

 

 

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Mail to Friends of Bob, Box 59, Battle Ground, IN 47920.

 

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