KILLER TAKES ON ENNIO MORRICONE AND "DARK END OF THE STREET" PLUS TWO DEEP SOUL ORIGINALS
Memphis soul men The Bo-Keys will release two vinyl/digital-only 45s
today on Electraphonic Recordings. The band joins with legendary
vocalists Spencer Wiggings and Percy Wiggins for a deep soul rendition
of the Dan Penn and Chips Moman classic hit "At The Dark End of the
Street." Versions by Cat Power, Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Ryan Adams,
and in the film "The Commitments" have kept it in the public eye and
Penn and Moman are most recently celebrated in the new documentary
"Muscle Shoals." B-side "Wind Up Monkey" sounds like a lost, funky
instrumental cut from Stax or Duke/Peacock, which debuted yesterday at
Wax Poetics.
The Bo-Keys also teamed up with soul powerhouse Percy Wiggins to bring
you their other new single steeped in the Bluff City heat, the original
"I Need More Than One Lifetime." The B-side is a funky instrumental take
on Ennio Morricone’s cult Western film theme "The Good, The Bad &
The Ugly."
Check out a mini-documentary on the singles series, which premiered on the Huffington Post last week.
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