Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks to all who have supported and inspired us this past year!

Here's one of the great thank you songs, from Sam and Dave. Enjoy your holiday!

The Harvard Crimson writes up The Chicken Slacks

Thanks to Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey on this fine article about The Chicken Slacks for the Harvard Crimson. Ben interviews four Slacks players, plus our friend Kit Holliday and founding member Justin Berthiaume. Nice description of The Cantab scene.

Here Ben discusses soul music and cover bands:

          "Soul music, even in its original form, has mostly been played by cover bands. Many soul and Motown greats would cover each others' songs, which in turn were often written by songwriting teams. With the exception of singer-songwriters like Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, soul and Motown music has always been sung by thrown voices; snatches of melody and refrain that come out of the dance halls and bars through the voice of a singer. So when Valadez talks about "putting a little Chicken Slacks into it," he and his band are essentially doing the same thing with their arrangements that the 'original' artists did. Only they are working decades later and most frequently in a bar where high-definition is something that comes with a channel in the 800s rather than off a vinyl cut from more wax."

Halloween!

Our first time at Union Street. Gonna be a big bash.

Listen to Brother Wayne on Wednesday, October 24, 12-2:00 PM, for free ticket giveaways! WMBR, 88.1 on your dial.

Thanks to Stephen Bourassa at New England Jazz Productions for the gig!

See you at Union Street Restaurant, 107R Union St, Newton Centre, MA (617) 964 6684!

New video

The Slacks perform a down and dirty little known classic by Stax/Volt artist Lee Sain:

"So Much Trouble on my Mind."

Maybe too much to play at a wedding...

Lee Sain

Jeremy's picks

Recommended by our Music Director, Jeremy Valadez: deep soul gems, old school classics and contemporary funk:

1) Do the Thing, Charles Lattimore

2) 99 1/2 Won't Do, Wilson Pickett

3) Get Down with It, Bobby Marchan

4) Authoritay, Alan Evans Trio

5) I Know You Got Soul, Bobby Byrd

6) Like Yesterday, The Monophonics


Enjoy the music that inspires the band!

In town, out of town

Lot's of miles recently-- New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts,  and Vermont in the last four weeks. New Hampshire and Rhode Island coming up.

This just in: another gig at Ryles in Cambridge, MA. Great food, great music, an historic venue. See you there on Friday, October 12, 2012!

New poster!

See you at The Cantab!