Size: 139,8 MB
Time: 60:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Soul/R&B
Art: Full
1. (Feel Like) Breakin' Up Somebody's Home (5:42)
2. Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean (3:36)
3. Dr Feelgood (6:01)
4. Rock Steady (3:16)
5. I'd Rather Go Blind (3:04)
6. How Strong Is A Woman? (6:50)
7. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) (3:44)
8. Your Queen (4:39)
9. You Can Leave Your Hat On (4:55)
10. Spirit In The Dark (5:37)
11. Try A Little Tenderness (5:24)
12. Think/Respect (7:47)
The Groove City projects starts from the musical collaboration and, above all, from the deep friendship among some well known musicians acting in the Bologna (Italy) area over many years. The style of music is inspired by Soul and Blues and in particular by the Memphis Sound with isolated raids into Funky and Jazz. The band was founded in 2005 and in 2010 it publishes its first CD “Friends” which represents the synthesis of the first five years of activity and gathers the recordings of some among many friends who teamed up with the band: Charlie Wood contributed with three tunes recorded live at Bravo Caffè in March 2009, then Rossella Graziani, Antonella Clementi, Gloria Turrini.
Participation at many editions of the Porretta Soul Festival and other Festivals a number of collaborations of the band with American artists, mostly resident in Memphis. In 2009 with the Sweet Nectar vocalist and the guitar player Tomas Bingham. In 2010 with Sax Gordon, explosive saxophon player from Detroit they proposed a tribute to King Curtis. In 2011 with Charlie Wood (Hammond organ and voice), Dwaine Thomas (bass), Bobby Manuel (guitar) and Sax Gordon again, a tribute to Willy Mitchell. After the 2011 festival they started a collaboration with the great Memphis singer Toni Green (Isaac Hayes). Together with Toni they performed the closing gig of the “Spiagge Soul” Festival in Marina di Ravenna, Italy.
In 2014 a series of gigs with Bruce James and Bella Black from Texas. In 2015 they participated at the Porretta Soul Festival with Rick Hutton, Theo Huff (Chicago) and Wee Willie Walker (Memphis). Soon after the Groove City Band performed a series of concerts with Willie. In 2016 during the 29th edition of the Porretta Soul Festival the band presented the CD Road To Memphis entirely dedicated to the Memphis town, a showcase of many artists that the band featured during many years. Moreover the band gigged with Jerry Jones, Rick Hutton, Bruce James and for the first time with Daria Biancardi. In October 2016 they participate at the final evening of the Castelfranco Blues Festival gigging with Daria Biancardi, David Hudson (Atlanta) and Virginia Smith.
With Daria Biancardi and Rick Hutton, the outstanding presenter of the Italian television program Videomusic and Master of Cerimony of the Porretta Soul Festival, they exhibited in a number of gigs and designed the show called “The Soul Story”, presented for the first time at the Unipol Arena of Bologna, Italy, in early December 2016. Their arrangement of tunes like “New York State of Mind” and “Spirit in the Dark” won in 2011 and 2012 the prize for the best live performance at the competition “Libera la musica” (“Set the Music Free”) organized by “Magazzini Sonori” and by the Emilia Romagna Regional Council and again in 2014 with the original tune “No Need No Money” composed by Fabio Ziveri and Saverio Lanzarini (regretfully the latter died in March 2015 when he was only 41 years old) and performed by Bruce James they won the same competition for the “Soul and R&B” section.
The increasingly tight collaboration with Daria Biancardi gave birth to “Respect! Queen Aretha”, a musical dedicated to the undisputed Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, which had its debut in September 2017 at the Santa Cecilia Theater in Palermo, Italy. In October 2017 the CD “Live at Bravo Caffè” was released, recorded live with Daria Biancardi in the well known club of Bologna. In 2018, 2019 e 2020 the activity of the Groove City band was carried on with many public and private gigs. We like to remember the Pitigliano Festival in summer 2018, the November 2018 gigs in Montebelluna (Treviso, Italy) and Turbigo (Milan, Italy), the “Respect! Queen Aretha” performance in March 2019 at the Michelangelo Theater in Modena (Italy) and the gig of August 2020 in the beautiful square of Budrio (Bologna).
Participation at many editions of the Porretta Soul Festival and other Festivals a number of collaborations of the band with American artists, mostly resident in Memphis. In 2009 with the Sweet Nectar vocalist and the guitar player Tomas Bingham. In 2010 with Sax Gordon, explosive saxophon player from Detroit they proposed a tribute to King Curtis. In 2011 with Charlie Wood (Hammond organ and voice), Dwaine Thomas (bass), Bobby Manuel (guitar) and Sax Gordon again, a tribute to Willy Mitchell. After the 2011 festival they started a collaboration with the great Memphis singer Toni Green (Isaac Hayes). Together with Toni they performed the closing gig of the “Spiagge Soul” Festival in Marina di Ravenna, Italy.
In 2014 a series of gigs with Bruce James and Bella Black from Texas. In 2015 they participated at the Porretta Soul Festival with Rick Hutton, Theo Huff (Chicago) and Wee Willie Walker (Memphis). Soon after the Groove City Band performed a series of concerts with Willie. In 2016 during the 29th edition of the Porretta Soul Festival the band presented the CD Road To Memphis entirely dedicated to the Memphis town, a showcase of many artists that the band featured during many years. Moreover the band gigged with Jerry Jones, Rick Hutton, Bruce James and for the first time with Daria Biancardi. In October 2016 they participate at the final evening of the Castelfranco Blues Festival gigging with Daria Biancardi, David Hudson (Atlanta) and Virginia Smith.
With Daria Biancardi and Rick Hutton, the outstanding presenter of the Italian television program Videomusic and Master of Cerimony of the Porretta Soul Festival, they exhibited in a number of gigs and designed the show called “The Soul Story”, presented for the first time at the Unipol Arena of Bologna, Italy, in early December 2016. Their arrangement of tunes like “New York State of Mind” and “Spirit in the Dark” won in 2011 and 2012 the prize for the best live performance at the competition “Libera la musica” (“Set the Music Free”) organized by “Magazzini Sonori” and by the Emilia Romagna Regional Council and again in 2014 with the original tune “No Need No Money” composed by Fabio Ziveri and Saverio Lanzarini (regretfully the latter died in March 2015 when he was only 41 years old) and performed by Bruce James they won the same competition for the “Soul and R&B” section.
The increasingly tight collaboration with Daria Biancardi gave birth to “Respect! Queen Aretha”, a musical dedicated to the undisputed Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, which had its debut in September 2017 at the Santa Cecilia Theater in Palermo, Italy. In October 2017 the CD “Live at Bravo Caffè” was released, recorded live with Daria Biancardi in the well known club of Bologna. In 2018, 2019 e 2020 the activity of the Groove City band was carried on with many public and private gigs. We like to remember the Pitigliano Festival in summer 2018, the November 2018 gigs in Montebelluna (Treviso, Italy) and Turbigo (Milan, Italy), the “Respect! Queen Aretha” performance in March 2019 at the Michelangelo Theater in Modena (Italy) and the gig of August 2020 in the beautiful square of Budrio (Bologna).
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