SOULIVE @ THE KNITTING FACTORY (Night #1) January 18, 2008

Stax is back with Soulive's No Place Like Soul, a bold new statement from New York's preeminent groove machine and the first new-artist release from the Concord Music Group's relaunch of the legendary Memphis soul label. Formed in 1999, Soulive developed a reputation as one of the most sought after instrumental soul-funk trios around, a hard-touring live act that's thrown down everywhere from small rock clubs to opening arena shows for the Rolling Stones. Yet an interesting thing happened when the three veteran musicians hooked up last year to begin work on the follow-up to 2005's critically acclaimed Break Out: They discovered that rather than extend their past achievements, they were more interested in racking up some new ones. With that in mind, they found they were writing more vocal-based music, and rather than retread the guest vocalist scenario, Toussaint (lead vocalist from reggae group China Band) joined as a full-time fourth member of Soulive.

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