• The Revelations & Doug Wamble - FREE SHOW
• 8:00pm

After a wildly successful debut onstage at City Winery as part of a WFUV live showcase, The Revelations return for a Spring residency starting March 21st. The band will be joined by special guests for these three shows.

SUNDAY SHOW HAS BEEN OPENED TO ALL FOR FREE

PLEASE RSVP to concierge@citywinery.com by Sunday 12pm to secure your free tickets.

ABOUT THE REVELATIONS

The work of a six-man collective fusing hip-hop, funk and gritty soul, The Revelations blend the sounds of the bluesy rural South and gritty urban streets. Led by Tre Williams, the group crafts a sound that's timeless and undeniably energetic. Styled after a modern-day Otis Redding, Williams has used his church-choir and R&B background — not to mention his four-octave range — in high-profile contributions to records by the likes of Petey Pablo and Nas. His band's other five members are similarly experienced, with ties to names such as Mary J. Blige, Kanye West and Raphael Saadiq.

The Revelations definitively revive '60s and '70s soul, yet there's a modern quality to their sound that suggests they're not bound to the confines of a jukebox. Their debut record, "Deep Soul", blends images of the deep South with the hard scrabble streets of a bustling city into one contemporary view of life. The sextet's mixture of soul, funk and hip-hop on "Deep Soul" creates a fusion of old standards with fresh ideas. The Revelations band experiences are equally high profile--they have recorded with everyone from the Wu Tang Clan to Matisyahu.

ABOUT DOUG WAMBLE

Listening to the third solo release from guitarist, singer, and songwriter Doug Wamble, it is hard to believe that the Tennessee-bred musician was ever a jazz purist. The ten original songs on Doug Wamble, plus a closing cover version of Fiona Apple's "I Know," blend a bounty of soul, gospel, blues, R&B, country, pop, and folk inspirations into a deeply personal and original sound. But the Doug Wamble of 15 years ago might not have approved these eclectic manifestations of the musical muse.

"If my 22-year-old self heard this album, he'd have been horrified,"says Wamble, now 37 and living in the Bronx. "I was very dogmatic," he recalls. "It had to be X, Y, and Z or it's not jazz. It's good to go through that. It really disciplined me and gave me so much drive, but it's not the way to live your whole life. I love a lot of music other than jazz. I'm a huge fan of Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Wilco. I love what these great songwriters do. So this album is all about finding a way to present these songs I've been writing over the last couple of years."

Produced by Lee Townsend, whose credits include Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Kelly Joe Phelps, Carrie Rodriguez, and Loudon Wainwright III, among many others, Doug Wamble features guest artists such as seven-string guitarist Charlie Hunter, singer/violinist Carrie Rodriguez, and trumpeter Steven Bernstein, among others. The core band carries over from Wamble's first two albums, featuring a trio of musicians that Wamble met during his jazz studies at the University of North Florida: Roy Dunlap, piano, organ, and keyboards; Jeff Hanley, acoustic and electric bass, percussion; and Peter Miles, drums and percussion.

Renown for his tasteful and expressive acoustic picking, Wamble demonstrates his virtuosity on electric and slide guitar, as well. "A lot of guys use it as an effect, but I love the inflection from the slide, it really speaks to me. I see it as being a different voice, "he says, citing Duke Ellington trombonist "Tricky" Sam Nanton, sacred steel masters Robert Randolph and Aubrey Ghent, rocker Derek Trucks, and experimentalist David Tronzo as influences.

But the focal points of the new album are clearly Wamble's versatile songwriting and his warm, soulful singing-talents that have gradually emerged over the past decade. Born in Clarksville, Tennessee, Wamble had been "moderately interested in being a classical musician," as a clarinet player, while growing up in Memphis. But by the time he entered college at Memphis State, his allegiances had shifted to guitar, "Albert King, B.B. King, and Stevie Ray Vaughan were some of my favorites," and jazz. "During my senior year of high school, I used to go to the library on Sundays for school-related projects, and I started to check out records by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. When I heard a Benny Goodman record with Charlie Christian, that started me down the track of wanting to be a jazz guitar player."