SOUNDTRACK: ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES-Tiny Desk Concert #410 (December 6, 2014).
Paul Janeway stands on Bob Boilen’s desk wearing gold shoes and singing his heart out. Janeway is the lead singer of St. Paul and the Broken Bones, a seven-piece soul band based out of Alabama.
Janway has a powerful voice and sings in a very old-school soul style. The Broken Bones consist of two guitarist, a keyboardist, a trombone, a trumpet and drums.
They play three songs, “Half the City,” and “Call Me” (in which he does some great shuffle dances on the desktop and seems to almost fall off the desk) are full throttle dancing soul music. The final song is kind of a sad song, a story about how the band got together called “Broken Bones and Pocket Change.”
There’s a funny moment when Bob asks if he’s hot way up there and he Janeway replies, “Is it hot? Naw man, we’re from Alabama.”
The band was fairly new back in 2014, but I see that as of this week, they have a new album coming out. So good for them.
[READ: March 1, 2016] The Zabîme Sisters
When I read this book, back in March, I had been reading a lot of First Second graphic novels (I’m very close to having read them all!). And reading this publishers entire catalog has led me to read amazingly detailed and interesting stories about real events. And that’s pretty awesome.
This story is set in Guadeloupe, but unlike some of the other real-life stories of horror and degradation that I’ve read, this one is a simple story of childhood in a Caribbean island.
Not a lot happens, and yet the story is charming and enjoyable.
The story is told in 3 parts. It is about three sisters, I’m not sure if they are triplets or just close on age. I like how they have similar features but distinctive hair. (more…)
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