Download: JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, ‘Everything Will Be Fine’

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Chicago quartet JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound make rambunctious old-school soul that, like revivalists such as Fitz & the Tantrums and Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, is as heavy on the pop hooks and punky edges as it on the grooves. The four-piece has been heating up in its hometown, and even performed for the mayor of Chicago, which in the old days used to get you a tax break,. But when they visit L.A. this week (coincidentally – and unfortunately for soul fans – the same night Black Joe Lewis is playing) Brooks and crew bring with them songs from a lauded new album “Want More.” It blows away anything Black Joe Lewis has done. Sweat not included.

||| Download: “Everything Will Be Fine”

[audio:http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/resources/mp3_jcbus_fine.mp3]

||| Live: JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound play Friday night at the Satellite, supported by the Damselles & the TC4. Black Joe Lewis performs Friday night at the Echoplex.

||| Also: Visit NPR to hear the track “I Got High.”

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