If you grooved to Wilson Pickett’s “In The Midnight Hour,” you’ll get that same over-heated feeling all over again when you listen to “Call Me” by St. Paul and the Broken Bones. This is rated “MUST LISTEN TO!”
As Dave low-keyed it in his memo to me: “when a relatively new band gets chosen to open a couple of dates for the Rolling Stones, something special is going on.”
The group opened for Mick and Keith and the boys in Atlanta, and a few other East coast dates, on the Stones most recent tour.
“Call Me’” was a hit last year, so it’s technically not “new,” but Dave thought it was so great he had to share it, and I’m really glad he did.
St. Paul & the Broken Bones has the same big, brassy, powerful 60s soul music sound that encapsulates so many emotions: love, joy, pain, passion. As Dave put it: “it really strikes a nerve.”
BG: Don’t know how they got their name; 7 guys formed the band in 2012 in Alabama, which, coincidentally, is also the home of Wilson PIckett.