Like the other members of the band — drummer Ben Malament, sax and clarinet player Johnny Bones, keyboardist Lorenzo Loera, and bassist Beau Bradbury — he became fascinated early on with all varieties of R&B, from funk and Southern soul to Delta blues and the music of New Orleans. It’s little wonder, then, that in the past decade, they’ve become festival favorites, having progressed a long way from their humble beginnings of busking in train stations in their San Francisco home.
"We learned a lot from the streets and our Soul Tub, our beloved bucket with a string,” recalls"Part of the band's concept is letting the songs sound like the people playing them."
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“We are really a live band,”
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