HeartSoulBlood Royal Southern Brotherhood

• 1 World Blues 04:10
• 2 Rock And Roll 04:57
• 3 Groove On 04:42
• 4 Here It Is 04:05
• 5 Callous 05:04
• 6 Ritual 04:32
• 7 Shoulda Known 04:05
• 8 Let's Ride 04:43
• 9 Trapped 03:52
• 10 She's My Lady 05:08
• 11 Takes A Village 03:45
• 12 Love And Peace 04:07
• Total Runtime 53:10

Info for HeartSoulBlood

The Royal Southern Brotherhood has been called the most important southern musical union of the decade, featuring the legendary Grammy award winning Neville Brother Cyril Neville, Devon Allman, Mike Zito, Charlie Wooton, and Yonrico Scott.

Having performed in over thirty countries headlining major festivals and venues, HeartSoulBlood is the result of those performances and many traveled miles, miles which have deeply and soulfully developed this band as they’ve toured together across the world. The title says it all, HeartSoulBlood.

“The music these men make together draws on their richly various experience—funk, blues, hard rock, reggae—as individual artists, but it’s blended into a single tightly focused form of timeless Southern expression known as blues-rock, and they play the living hell out of it.” (John Sinclair (one-time manager of the band MC5, and leader of the White Panther Party))

Mike Zito, guitar, vocals
Devon Allman, guitar, vocals
Cyril Neville, percussion, vocals
Charlie Wooton, bass, vocals
Yonrico Scott, drums, vocals

Royal Southern Brotherhood
Before they even hit a chord, The Royal Southern Brotherhood have your attention. In the US South, where music is religion, two rock ‘n’ roll bloodlines tower above all others. In the saloon bars from Mississippi to Maryland, mere mention of the Allman and Neville Brothers casts a magic spell. Conversation falls silent. Pool balls stop rolling. Ten-gallon hats are tipped in respect and beer-bottles raised in salute. These aren’t just bands, they’re gods, and with a lineup comprising both the iconic Cyril Neville and Devon Allman, The Royal Southern Brotherhood come pre-loaded with expectations. Don’t worry: they can match them. The family tree might be auspicious, but this new band trades on talent, not genealogy. It’s not about rock history: it’s about the here-and-now.

This lineup has talent to burn. You’ll already know Cyril Neville: poet, philosopher, percussion master and perhaps the South’ last great soul singer. Devon Allman. As the son of Gregg Allman, the 39-year-old has rock ‘n’ roll in his DNA, but he’s always walked his own path. Mike Zito: the blues ace whose ear for melody provides the counterpoint to his wingman’s rocking tendencies. Nominated in 2011 for the Blues Music Foundation’s ‘Best Blues Rock’ award, and winner of 2010′s Blues Music Award. Bassist Charlie Wooten and drummer Yonrico Scott: both heavyweight names in their own right, with Charlie’s bass chops celebrated on the Southern jam scene for his sets with the Woods Brothers, and Yonrico hitting the skins for luminaries including the Derek Trucks Band, Gregg Allman and the Allman Brothers themselves.

They said that rock ‘n’ roll was dead, but they were wrong. Right now, in 2012, there’s something in the air, as The Royal Southern Brotherhood drag their thrilling new brand of blues-rock and white-hot musicianship from the Southern States onto the world stage. The South is rising again. Come along for the ride.

Booklet for HeartSoulBlood