Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears / "Tell 'Em What Your Name Is"

Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears are to soul what the Mississippi All-Stars are to the blues and the Black Crowes are to rock. They are proudly retro, channeling, honoring and updating their influences. Lewis and the Honey Bears blend rock, soul, blues and funk into rough raw "garage soul" on their first full length release. The ten original tunes on "Tell 'Em What Your Name Is" , released by Lost Highway Records , are a nod to the Sixties, when soul artists covered rock songs (Otis Redding : The Stones' "Satisfaction") and rockers recorded soul (The Stones : Irma Thomas' "Time Is On My Side") and radio wasn't black and white. Imagine vocals (James Brown, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding) with some Faces' guitar topped with Booker T organ and some horns recorded at Stax and mixed at Fat Possum and you've got a pretty good approximation of the infectious sound of Black Joe Lewis.