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The Bo-Keys
12+ albums
funkrockmemphissouldaytrotter sessions
about
The Bo-Keys is an American soul jazz band from Memphis, Tennessee, formed as an homage to the city's rich musical tradition The band doesn't simply replay the Memphis instrumental tradition –they deliver a hard-hitting and authentic take on the city's original soul-stew sound. A devotee of Stax instrumental groups like the Mar-Keys and Booker T. & the MGs, bandleader and bassist Scott Bomar formed the Bo-Keys as an homage to the quintessential Memphis sound –yet he has both feet firmly planted in the 21st Century. Their story goes back to 1998, when Bomar was asked to put together a band to back former Stax artist and songwriter, Sir Mack Rice. The idea for a soul-jazz combo was born, but it took Bomar a few more years to assemble the perfect line-up for the Bo-Keys. A chance meeting between Bomar and guitarist Charles 'Skip' Pitts – at Memphis' Stax Music Academy, where both were teaching at-risk youth –led to the current incarnation of the Bo-Keys. Isaac Hayes' right hand man (that's Skip's wah-wah you hear on the intro to "Theme From Shaft"), Pitts also lent his unforgettable grooves to Rufus Thomas'"Do The Funky Chicken", the Soul Children's "I'll Be the Other Woman", The Isley Brothers' "It's Your Thing" and Gene Chandler's "Rainbow'65." Trumpeter and vocalist Ben Cauley is truly a soul legend. Ben is a founding member of the original Bar-Kays and the only surviving member of the fatal crash in Madison, WI which took the lives of his band mates and Otis Redding.
top songs
albums
Got To Get Back!
The Royal Sessions
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SXSW 2008 Showcasing Artists
Heartaches by the Number
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Writing On the Wall (feat. Percy Wiggins) - EP
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The Dark End Of The Street
I Need More Than One Lifetime
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Daytrotter Studio 9/29/2011
Work That Skirt
Work That Skirt Single
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Barnyard Soundtrack
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Dolemite Is My Name (Music from the Netflix Film)