Kalob Griffin Band - Getting Rowdy at Cambridge for Cover Club

Kalob Griffin Band celebrating their Cover Club session at Cambridge Sound Stuidos

The bands of Cover Club have done a great job of bringing out the best Philadelphia has to offer varying from contemporaries such as Strand Of Oaks, The Districts, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, mewithoutYou, the Lawsuits, Cruisr, and Chris Kasper. The classics have been deep with Hall & Oates, Ween, Nina Simone, Boyz II Men, The Dead Milkmen, Joan Jett, all the way to Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles.

No matter which end of the contemporary/classic spectrum bands choose from, there's always an "oh yeah, I can't believe he/she/they hasn't/haven't been covered yet. Oft overlooked, Jim Croce is an indisputable favorite no matter where you're from, and fits perfectly for Cover Club as he was born and raised in South Philadelphia and laid to rest nearby after spending most of his 30 years on the planet here.

With a bit of unintended irony, Kalob Griffin Band, who recently announced their break-up, picked one of Jim Croce's last singles before his untimely death. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is a perfect romp for the boisterous and rowdy Kalob Griffin Band. KGB brought some friends in to play horns giving the band quite the lively rendition!

Cover Club | Kalob Griffin Band "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" (Jim Croce)

It's funny how things go sometimes. Just a few weeks ago, Kalob Griffin was explaining how the band members stopped living together, so it wouldn't stop being as much fun when they were together as a band. It's hard to imagine things not being fun for these long time friends. Dating back to their days at Penn State University, before their tenure together in Kalob Griffin Band, they were friends first before opportunity brought the current lineup together.

For one last session, the brothers of KGB showed just how much fun they could have! Complete with harmonica and horns, Kalob Griffin Band gave the full treatment to Full Love Vol 1. EP single "Bugle Boy Tobacco." Kalob started off the song by asking drummer Eric Lawry to "give me some Dom" (paying homage to great local drummer Dom Billet (Toy Soldiers, Coin Purse, etc)), before Kalob, John Hildenbrand, Eric, Kevin Trout and the horns took us back to the life changing experience of a sixteen year old.

CoverClub | Kalob Griffin Band "Bugle Boy Tobacco"

Times Runnin' Out to see KGB Live...

New Release Q&A - Sonja Sofya answers some questions for "Patterns We Know"

The buzz has been all about Sonja Sofya and her new album The Patterns We Know . Tonight Sonja Sofya and band take to the stage at Boot & Saddle in South Philly along with a great line-up featuring Arc Divers and the dove and the wolf. Right off the top we have some great reasons to expect great things from this album, such as produced by Ross Bellenoit at Turtle Studios and excellent musicianship by guitarist/producer Ross Bellenoit, bassist Jonathan Colman , and drummers Matt Scarano and Jonas Oesterle . But we at Root Down In The Shadow wanted to dig further and see what Sonja had to say about the album. Here's 3 questions we had for the songstress Sonja Sofya: RDITS: What was the impetus to make a full length record and why did you pick the people you worked with? At a certain point, playing and writing as much as I was, it felt like the logical next step, but I waited for a while, trying to find the "perfect" time to go into the stud...

Bands Pick The Bands - 2016 XPoNential Music Festival Presented by Subaru - Artists Preview

Wooo Hooooo It's XPoNential Fest Time!!!! Every year WXPN brings a ton of great bands and artists to the Wiggins Park shore in Camden, NJ. With so many bands on the line-up it's daunting to figure out which bands to see. Fortunately, the way WXPN does the line-ups you CAN make it to every band should you choose. However, we all know it's going to be hot as hell. Not quite as hot as 2011 with the 100 degree days, but still super hot. Luckily for us, some of the festival performers have put in their two cents for which bands they are excited about. Rosemary Fiki starts the fest at 4pm today on the JerseyArts.Com Marina Stage. Let's see what she's recommending: Band Most Excited to Share the Festival Stage with : This is our first time time performing at XPoNential so to be completely honest, I'm super stoked to share the Festival stage with everyone! If I absolutely had to choose, I would say The Districts. We actually share...

New Chris Kasper single - City By the Sea

Here's a wonderfully bluesy tease to the upcoming Chris Kasper album. New single "City By The Sea", is just enough to keep fans from getting restless, while he tours with Carsie Blanton along the West Coast. Hopefully there will be some local dates soon, as 2017 seems so far off right now. City by the Sea by Chris Kasper

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