Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears

Related Content

• White Denim / Hundred Visions
  April 18, 2012
• David Zambrano: Soul Project
  May 9, 2012
• Twin Cities one of the best metros for recent college grads, says Rent.com
  March 30, 2012
• SXSW: Polica as the road team
  March 15, 2012
• Astronautalis hits SXSW hard, unveils "This Is Our Science" video
  March 12, 2012

More About

• Joe Lewis
• Austin (Texas)
• Dave Macon
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media
• Blues Music

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Events Newsletter: What's happening in town? From underground club nights to the biggest outdoor festivals, our top picks for the week's best events will always keep you in on the action.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Of all the contemporary bands messing around with vintage R&B, funk, soul, and blues, none come close to the raw, primitive, incendiary, sweat-drenched glory of Austin, Texas's Joe Lewis and the horn-stoked Honeybears. Shouting, growling, and testifying like James Brown, Wilson Pickett, and R.L. Burnside rolled together, Lewis howls with blistering intensity about lyin', cheatin', and dangerous livin' while his guitar slashes viciously and the Bears weigh in with a taut tumult of raunchy rhythms and blazing horns. The band's new Scandalous ricochets from stark Delta blues to talking blues to punk-informed blasts out of north Mississippi, Memphis, and Detroit. Nearly as wild is the Tennessee female trio Those Darlins, who apply a punk ethos to a genuine feel for country roots, with convincing covers of the Carter Family and Uncle Dave Macon joining nice originals. (Photo by Cambria Harkey)
Sun., April 3, 7 p.m., 2011