Sister 7 Reunion October 27, 2006

Patrice Pike - Vocals; Guitar, Percussion
Wayne Sutton - Vocals, Guitar
Darrell Phillips - Vocals, Bass
Sean Phillips - Drums
The lights are low and a hum fills the air. People are packed in the warehouse district on the night of the show. Moments away from the new millennium and the lucid sounds of the drums kick in, the tape rolls, and the choir of a thousand and more fans go crazy. This is Sister Seven Live recorded just before the band disbanded in 2001.

Now Sister Seven reunites this year for their first show at Antone's in four years. Ten years of writing music, touring, making records and making fans along the way have made the Sister Seven story. It is a testimony to all the time spent and a musical history of the band that has become a cult legend. The four members are Patrice Pike, Wayne Sutton, Darrell Phillips, and Sean Phillips.

It was at the famed Black Cat Lounge that it all started in Austin. We were all just having a good time. From that point on they took the music business by the horns, changed their sound at will to remain true to their creative impulses, and eluded Corporate Rock over and over again with the unwillingness to submit to the request to be untrue. Sometimes success is defined by honesty, conviction, and Independence. This is their story.
It has been said by Rolling Stone that, "She's Tina Turner, Bessie Smith, Janis Joplin, and Robert Plant, rolled into a tiny, but explosive package." Patrice Pike that is, and she was born to sing. At the beginning of the Sister Seven Live, as Fallen Angel begins a voice rises from the netherworld. An unsuspecting chant of mythic proportion rises through the music. You will not believe your ears. Patrice said this in 2000 regarding the disbanding of the group,"When we found out that yet another Major label that we were involved with was in self inflicted turmoil and that we would be one of the many bands who would be turned away because of budgets and contract buyouts, we immediately made plans to record a new live album. We knew we could do it, and it's what the fans wanted. She says now, "That was the best way to end a ten year legacy of touring, proving people wrong who said we were just a jam band and couldn't write songs, and playing our hearts out live at La Zona Rosa. Over and over we did things in the course of ten years that people said couldn't be done. Sister Seven Live is a great live record, fun to listen to and we will make that live excitement happen again at Antone's in November. We did it last year for two nights at Momo's and we'll take it to another level for a second year.

Wayne Sutton, the guitar wall of sound, shows his mastery of sounds and texture so well. One of the reasons Sister Seven is such a great live band is because he has been able to take the many parts he constructed on studio albums and meld them into one masterful foundation. His playing is lyrical and unique. Then there is the burning solo on Guilty Sin, a song that originated on the first Sister Seven Album in the early days, and has become a mountain of musical virtuosity. Patrice says with a smile, " Wayne is not only a great guitarist, but one of the unsung songwriters in our community in Austin. His songs are smart and beautifully melodic and they not only charted in the top 20, but great songwriters complimented him on the road and in National Magazines. John Fogerty was quoted as saying that Wayne's song "This One" was one of the best songs he'd ever heard."
Through the late night new millennium night we hear the words, "Darrell Phillips on the bass." Inspired by Mingus and Molded by Sly and all that funk, Darrell is a sight to be seen and the low end to be heard. He is the epitome of the real deal and the definition of just do it. How could he not be, having been known to carry a James Brown record with him everywhere he went as a small child? FOR REAL!

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