Description
Ladies and Gentlemen: the Brotherhood are in the building. The date is October 24th, 2012. The place is the Crossroads Festival in Bonn, Germany. And the vibe is pure electricity, as modern rock's musical dream-team tear it up for the legendary Rockpalast TV show.
It's surely no coincidence that the Royal Southern Brotherhood kick off their set that night with Fired Up! In the words of that song's chorus, Devon Allman, Cyril Neville, Mike Zito, Charlie Wooton and Yonrico Scott are undoubtedly "fired up and ready to go"…
Released in November 2013, this new CD/DVD set takes listeners along for the ride, fusing a blistering Brotherhood set with the pin-sharp sound and production values you've come to expect from Ruf Records' celebrated Songs From The Road series. Past releases have included everyone from Jeff Healey to Luther Allison – and now the spotlight turns on the southern supergroup who have lit up the post-millennial scene.
It's hard to imagine a band more deserving of the live-album treatment. If there was chemistry afoot when the five members first convened in New Orleans over the summer of 2010, then it's only been strengthened by the self-titled debut album that followed in 2012, and the subsequent world tour that has seen RSB raise the roof across twenty-plus countries.