Me, Billy T and Jobro are gettin' all jacked up for the JJ Grey and MOFRO show this Thursday night. Should be a helluva good time. Sippin' some bourbon and diggin' on some sweet swamp music. Tell your friends. Support this band. They sure are doin' it right. Here's the downlow:

JJ Grey & MOFRO is a soul and southern rock band from Jacksonville, Florida composed of JJ Grey (vocals, electric piano, acoustic guitar and electric guitar, harmonica), Daryl Hance (electric guitar and slide guitar), George Sluppick (drums), and Adam Scone (Hammond Organ). For the 2007 tour, (beginning in early Feb, '07) Dennis Marion (trumpet), and Art Edmaiston (tenor saxophone) joined up with Mofro and continue to be a part of the line-up. Their debut album, "Blackwater" was named one of the best records of the decade by amazon.com.

And here's a little from their site:

Growing up in the swamplands of northern Florida, JJ Grey became a realist early on. "You fall in love with a pig," he says, "and then one day your granddad knocks it in the head and bleeds it for butchering. You tend to grow up with a certain amount of realism in your life." JJ Grey and his band MOFRO exude rocking, funky, melodic, front porch realism in every song they play. Grey comes from a long tradition of Southern storytellers, and his songs oftentimes use the loss of his natural surroundings and the marginalization of the Southern culture he grew up in as a metaphor for universal truths. The band delivers his material with brilliant musicianship, resulting in music that is thought provoking, rhythmically dynamic and texturally mesmerizing.

JJ Grey & MOFRO's Alligator debut COUNTRY GHETTO (produced by Dan Prothero) features 12 original JJ Grey compositions that come right out of the Southern musical and literary tradition. Grey's ear for detail inhabits his songs, whether it's a story passed down to him from his grandmother or the tribulations of a childhood friend. His voice delivers them with an unflinching strength that makes the personal universal and paints a vivid portrait of an exact time or place with words and music. Like his songs, his rich, soulful vocals are forceful and commanding, seemingly old beyond his years. And the music, from smoldering soul ballads to gospel-fried funk to straight ahead rock 'n' roll, brings it all home with danceable grooves and a melodic freshness that will stay with you long after the album ends.
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