Blog: SoundsXP

Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears: Tell 'Em What Your Name Is This is just 30 minutes long but is packed with 60s-sounding pleading, testifying and downright lecherous garage-soul. Retro it is then, but reproduction it ain't; it's done with such Southern style (Joe Lewis is a resident of Austin, TX) and feel for the original sources that if you like the Stax sound, James Brown's soulful emoting or Oblivians-style garage rock, this will drip like [...]