Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, 'Scandalous' (Lost Highway)
March 15, 2011 For the follow-up to their 2009 debut, Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears again team with Spoon drummer Jim Eno, who as producer brings the stripped-down, punchy minimalism of his main gig. Though indebted to the brassy blasts and pleading yelps of James Brown, as well as the riffs of the MC5 and Stooges, Lewis and Co. avoid sounding either self-consciously retro or awkwardly modern on Scandalous. …
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