New Release | “Is There Any Love”
If you’ve lost all hope in funk & soul being alive, fear not ! T Bird & the Breaks is bringing you the best of funk & soul infused with the sounds of the present. I can not say enough great things about this band, we will continue to cover this group very closely. Enjoy their newest release “Is There Any Love” (Out Of The Rain). This particular work sounds like JJ Grey & Mofro meets Stax meets Motown. However, it is best said that T Bird and the Breaks maintain a unique identity that has made them one of our favorite bands out there right now.
This past fall I had the pleasure of catching T-bird and the Breaks perform at post-Galactic show at Sundown at Granada. Galactic brought down the house for the encore with a roaring cover of the Rolling Stone’s “Gimme Shelter”, the intro of which is arguably one of the best intros in music history. After the show I made my way next door to Sundown at Granada where I witnessed one of the better post-show performances in recent memory. The group tore through a tasty mix of original funk & soul tunes mixed in with some fine covers from the likes of Sly & the Family Stone among others.
Their raw organic talent for bringing the heat is undeniable.
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About T Bird & the Breaks
Gravel-voiced front-man who always leaves it on stage? Check.
Hailing from Austin, TX, T Bird And The Breaks play a style of dance music that has it’s most basic and obvious roots in the Funk and Soul music of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. It’ll get you dancing. It’ll make you sweat. It’ll make you smile.
But…it can’t be classified as strictly throw-back, retro, Funk/Soul. The original songs belie lyrical influences such as Beck. Or Bob Dylan. And the contemporary swagger of The Breaks’ live show especially pays homage to the creativity and positivity of early and golden-age Hip-Hop. The band’s “kitchen-sink-style” of music is evident on their cover of Shirley Ellis’ 1965 R&B hit “The Clapping Song” in which they include verses from Tom Waits’ “Clap Hands”.
It’s a melting-pot of funk but one that people of all ages, and across musical genres, can dig. In the last few years they’ve been invited to play shows with artists as eclectic as The Flaming Lips, The Funky Meters, Sting, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, and Galactic.
2014 will see T Bird and the Breaks releasing their third studio album, “What It Is (Harmonism)”, and bringing their electric, tear-a-hole-in-it, funk-bomb of a live show to a stage near you.