The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker,Patrick Sweany

May 10th 2008

Saturday, 10:00 PM

Saturday 5/10
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The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker
Patrick Sweany
$10 | 9PM doors, 10PM show | 18+

 About The Dynamites feat. Charles Walker
If the first attention-grabbing horn lines of The Dynamites album Kaboom! evoke a dramatic curtain call from a late ‘60s funk concert at the Apollo Theater, it’s no accident. After all, that’s exactly where Charles Walker, the band’s singer and front man, first cut his teeth as a performer. When the revolutionary ‘new bag’ now known as funk first made the scene, Walker was right there in the thick of it, opening for the likes of James Brown, Etta James, and Wilson Pickett, and imbibing himself in a cultural movement’s genesis.

Walker deserves his due after decades as an unsung musical hero. He first became a professional entertainer in his native Nashville in the late 1950s, recording with hit producer Ted Jarrett and appearing nightly at the New Era Club, one of the South’s leading black nightclubs. Walker spent most of the 1960s and ‘70s in New York, performing frequently at the Apollo Theater and Small’s Paradise when the original funk scene coalesced. Fronting various bands, including the criminally underrated Little Charles & the Sidewinders, Walker released singles for Chess, Decca, and a number of smaller labels. The records failed to hit the big time but their quality endured and are now prized among collectors. After the recordings gained notice in Europe’s Northern Soul scene, Walker found steady solo work overseas, and he lived in England and Spain before returning to Music City in the 1990s.



   About Patrick Sweany Band
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"Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover, or in this case, a musician by his promo shot. For example, take a good look at Patrick Sweany. Do you think he plays NME hyped new rave? He's probably not a know tweedler and most likely not a knuckle dragging cock rocker. What about quirky indie pop, literary pop, or some Pitchfork approved best new music? Nope. He's an honest, hard workin', roots rockin' blues man from the rust belt.

For his latest CD, Every Hour Is A Dollar Gone, Sweany had the help of one of the area's pre-eminent blues musician's, The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who co-produced and engineered the recordings. It goes without saying, that it's got that same vintage rock and roll sound that's found on many of The Black Keys' records. "From Orange To Pink" is a rambling boogie, with the feel of dirty fingernails scraping the strings, while "Mom and Dad" has a carefree rag-time feel tailor made for hand-clapping and toe-tapping." - I Rock Cleveland