- “All of Me”
- “Ridin’ Wit Chu”
- “Woman Luck”
- “I Thought You Needed Him”
In the present day’s mini-concert provides a fantastic story about connection and collaboration. Billy Allen and Jay Burgess had been session musicians on the legendary Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala., and each of them had their very own musical tasks. Billy Allen was a solo artist, and Burgess had based the band The Pollies.
Although they’d met earlier than, a collaboration at Fame for Little Richard‘s “Greenwood, Mississippi” led to the musicians teaming up and turning into Billy Allen + The Pollies.
Their retro blues rock sound has made followers of Brittany Howard, from Alabama Shakes, and Jason Isbell, who invited the band to open for him for a number of reveals. Their debut album, coming later this 12 months, is named Black Noise, and the band carried out a few of these new songs for a stay viewers at 2024’s NON-COMMvention in Philadelphia.
This episode of World Cafe was produced by Will Loftus. The online construct was created by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson.
