Step Up CD BlackWidow In the three decades encompassing

In the three decades encompassing his career thus far

“Ode to Bilie Joe”—Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 debut as a singer-songwriter and a Number One single for three weeks in the late Summer of Love — was the most psychedelic record of that year not from San Francisco or London

the sextet have never allowed anyone outside of their ranks to dictate or influence the music they write

Produced by John Leckie

Throughout 2017-18 she toured globally

Step Up CD BlackWidow In the three decades encompassingWith a landmark 50th anniversary album, 2018s Soul Side of Town, still visible in their rearview mirror, one would think Tower of Power (or TOP, as it is more often referred to by its global legion of fans), the much lauded creators of their own horn based, hybrid brand of East Bay soul funk R&B rock, would take a well deserved breather. But that is not in the bands DNA, nor that of its founder and ringmaster, tenor saxophonist and bandleader Emilio