Blackburn - Junker Blues

Album: Brotherhood | Buy: | Champion Jack Dupree cover Toronto’s first family of funk and soul is Blackburn. “Brotherhood“ is their first Blues recording - a CD celebrating the traces of traditional blues, R&B, soul, hard grooves and harmony that only siblings can create. The launch of “Brotherhood“ returns the Blackburn brothers to the prominence they enjoyed when entertaining packed houses at their old stomping ground, the Bamboo Club. For 15 formidable years, they were part of Toronto’s street culture representing a lineage of unmistakable nocturnal hedonism. New Orleans has the Neville Brothers; Toronto’s Blackburn similarly fires up live shows with scorching soul power. The brothers put on a show rich in the tradition of the blues, while inflected with an electric urban vibe. Blackburn’s wickedly tight sound features lead singer, Duane Blackburn, playing a vintage Hammond B3 organ as if he was born on the bench. Duane has a sensuously sm