Kings Go Forth transcends trends with soul-funk goodness
Andy Noble hates fads, least of all when they involve his band: Milwaukee’s Kings Go Forth.
The 35-year-old bassist-producer-arranger-songwriter has immersed himself in underground soul music throughout his adult life. He’s a collector, former record-store owner and DJ, besides leading one of the fiercest funk-soul bands to emerge in the last decade.
Over that time, he’s developed a keen ear for what he does and doesn’t want to hear. So don’t get him started about being part of a wave of new bands pretending that it’s the Motown or Stax era all over again.
“I don’t wake up and think it’s 1967,” he says. “And I don’t want to be. I didn’t want to be involved in some fly-by-night scene. I thought of soul as an enduring thing.”
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