The Holmes Brothers

Meditative soul revival

by James M. Manheim

posted 3/15/2004

Though you might call the Holmes Brothers blues or soul revivalists, there's a quietness about their music that Wilson Pickett in his prime would never have tried to get away with. The blues original "I'm So Lonely" on their latest album, Simple Truths, has the delicacy of a Japanese koto piece. You hear in their music not the church-spawned fire of soul but

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