Steve Azar & The Kings Men: Down at the Liquor Store

 Rootsy vocalist and guitarist Steve Azar leads a Southern blues team of Walter King/horns, Ray Neal/g, David Briggs/key, Regi Richards/b, Herman Jackson/dr, Jason Young/key, Dr Alphonso Sanders/horns and Jimmie Lee Jr/B3 to musically celebrate a local historically famous Mississippi liquor store. Azar has a rich and clean voice, mixing up the genres of C&W pieces such as “Rena Lara” and the foot stomping “I Don’t Mind” with folksy minstrel’d tunes like the title track and the intimate and endearing “She Just Rolls With Me.” The band has a Doobie Brothers vibe to it, with hip grooves on “Ode to Sonny Boy” and “Wake Me From the Dead.” Lots of good ol’ attitudes here for pickin’ and grinnin’.

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