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What the critics are saying about The Dynamites’ Kaboom!

“New York City has the Dap-Kings, the retro funk and soul band that recently backed Amy Winehouse. Nashville has the Dynamites, whose approach is about three-quarters James Brown — especially mid-1960s James Brown — with touches of Memphis, Motown and New Orleans. For its album “Kaboom!” (Outta Sight), the band’s guitarist and leader, Bill Elder, a k a Leo Black, has written strong, vintage-style songs, whether he’s tackling social issues (“Way Down South”) or immediate pleasures (“Can You Feel It?”) and arrangements that mesh a bustling rhythm section with meaty horns. The Dynamites have found a singer to put them across: Charles Walker, who has been on the soul circuit since the 1960s. His voice rivals better-known headliners; he’s an authoritative, gospel-steeped shouter and a dramatic ballad builder. It’s old-school music that works up a genuine sweat. “ -The New York Times

“The Dynamites’ Kaboom! is just about the best deep neo-soul records you’re likely to hear this year. The grooves are tight, the mood is right and Walker has plenty of fight left in ‘im, even after all these years. Highly recommended.” -eMusic

“These ten songs, from the sinewy, low-rider hard fonk of “Slinky” (George Clinton, watch out!) to the uptown-struttin’, JB’s-styled grooves of “Own Thing,” sound ageless and out of time.”
-HARP

“Old-school shouter Charles Walker joins the established eight-piece Nashville based Dynamites and the union is a match made in hard funk heaven.” -All Music Guide

“With Walker's gritty but supple vocals riding atop cold-sweat, JBs-like workouts ("Come on In"), slinking Sly Stone-esque grooves ("Can You Feel it?"), and Funkadelic-ized cosmic slop ("Way Down South"), "Kaboom!" comes across as nothing less than a new dictionary of old soul, hard funk, and vintage R&B.” -Boston Globe

“There's no getting around it - this Nashville ensemble's funk-soul hybrid is downright explosive.”
-Philadelphia Inquirer

“These guys are TIGHT. Tighter than Foxy Brown’s wig [or] James Brown’s new bag...”
-Jambase.com

“The Dynamites KABOOM! is a perfectly produced party from start to finish, full of intense, insistent funk and Walker's hard-won soul singing.” -American Songwriter

James Brown is gone, but Charles Walker and the Dynamites are carrying on. But the group isn’t just re-creating the music of a lost era, it’s giving old-school soul hyped-up, 21st century punch.
-Boston Herald

“You won’t hear tributes to ’50s and ’60s soul grooves better than those from The Dynamites.”
-The Boston Phoenix

“Kaboom! Is right. [The Dynamites] can tighten up or bring it down with a stirring amount

of soul power.” - Austin Chronicle

“The overall vibe, straight from the canon of the late James Brown, is all about long, syncopated grooves that will make a dead man dance.” - Winston-Salem Journal

"Listening to Charles Walker & The Dynamites immediately whisked me back to Small's Paradise,1964. It's so wonderful to hear Charles' voice is as strong as ever."
- Bettye LaVette

“It all comes down to layin’ down a groove that takes people to another place. That’s way The Dynamites will blow people away.” - Jojo Hermann, Widespread Panic

“Throughout the album, from steady funk stomps to soul ballads, The Dynamites keep the rhythms intricate and infectious and the textures deliciously gritty.” - All The Rage

“Sadly, James Brown is no longer with us, but the spirit of his music is very much alive in Nashville's Dynamites. The old-school Dynamites dare you not to dance.” - Pioneer Press

“With every spin, The Dynamites’ Kaboom! is the truest, most badass soul/ funk around.”
-Tiger Weekly

“This collection is so down-home, kinetic, cooking and virtuoso at the same time.” -Yes! Weekly

“Featuring legendary vocalist Charles Walker, “Kaboom!” is a horn heavy, toe-tapping delight by nine gifted musicians.” -The Daily News

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-KABOOM!, the debut album from The Dynamites feat. Charles Walker has been completed and a fine slab of gritty funk & slinky soul it is! Look for it
to drop on Outta Sight Records on June 12, 2007, available in finer record stores everywhere and online as well.

-The Dynamites & Charles will be opening some dates for our funk soul brothers GALACTIC!! Make sure and get to the venue in time to catch their
smoking opening set on April 21 at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, OH and April 22 at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, TN.

-In addition to the dates with Galactic, The Dynamites are hitting the road and heading down to New Orleans for the first time. On the festival scene,
The Dynamites are playing at Vanderbilt's Rites of Spring Fest in April and the Austin City Limits Music Festival in September. Check the "Gigs" page
for all the relevant details and for new tour dates as they're announced.

-Check out The Dynamites' myspace page at www.myspace.com/thedynamitesband  especially if you haven't visited in a while. We've posted 2 live tracks, "Twice As Much For My Baby" & "Help Somebody", both of which are chestnuts from Charles Walker's days recording at Chess & Decca reworked and beefed up with explosive Dynamites arrangements. Also, we've posted a video of the band and Charles performing another classic Walker soul monster "Talkin' Bout You" recorded live at Nashville's Mercy Lounge. Keep checking back to the myspace page as we post preview tracks from KABOOM! over the next few months leading up to the release date on June 12.