Time: 37:38
Size: 86.2 MB
Styles: Memphis blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front
[0:42] 1. Coming Home
[3:40] 2. Down In The Water
[3:13] 3. Elements
[4:01] 4. Stop Me Before
[3:14] 5. Do What I Want
[3:33] 6. Esta Shimado A' Me'
[3:06] 7. Grace Extended
[3:53] 8. Kings-Of-The-Delta
[3:18] 9. Golden Row
[4:45] 10. People, People
[3:23] 11. The Way
[0:44] 12. Coming Home (Reprise)
Greg Lackey named his band "Kings of the Delta," but his home is West Memphis. "I know I didn't live in Como, Miss., or wherever the Delta is exactly," said Lackey, 29, the group's lead singer, guitarist and songwriter. "If you walk outside and you see soybeans growing around your house, I think you're in the Delta. You've got the Mississippi running past your playground, you're in the Delta." Their name came from one of his songs, which is about "just growing up in this area and the struggles within the area and within our self." Kings of the Delta includes keyboard and trumpet player Philip Andrew Joyner Jr.; bass player Jason Poff; drummer Brett Broadway; and Hope Clayburn on saxophone, flute and vocals.
Lackey got interested in music at 12 years old when his big brother introduced him to Pink Floyd's music. "I was a really big fan of music, going to see a lot of shows and just wishing that I could play, but I didn't think I was coordinated enough. ... I could always sing, but I thought unless you're Robert Plant, I'm never gonna stand on the stage and try to sing without a guitar."
When he was 22, Lackey finally picked up a guitar. "I just figured I could learn a couple of easy songs and have a guitar sitting around my house to look cool." With the help of a friend and a guitar instruction video, Lackey learned to play and decided to form a band right away. He heard about a guitarist living in a halfway house. "I got him out because he was just such a great guitarist. Moved him in with me and just soaked it up for about a year and a half." The arrangement finally went sour, but Lackey says he learned how much he had to practice. "I really spent about three years where I practiced about 10 hours a day."
Lackey's first band was Ten Mile Bayou, named for the bayou he used to play in that ran past his house in West Memphis. When he left that group, Lackey formed Kings of the Delta. His sister, Lee Kathryn Lackey, describes their sound as "a soulful dose of Southern groove rock. Being from this area, we're known for rock and blues and all that stuff." Clayburn says the music pays homage to rock and blues, "but also broadens it with a little more soul and a little more Southern grease." Lackey used his old band's name as the title of the first Kings of the Delta CD, which includes an array of guest artists, including Kirk Smithart, Dave Cousar, Rick Steff, Eric Lewis and John Stubblefield. ~Michael Donahue
Lackey got interested in music at 12 years old when his big brother introduced him to Pink Floyd's music. "I was a really big fan of music, going to see a lot of shows and just wishing that I could play, but I didn't think I was coordinated enough. ... I could always sing, but I thought unless you're Robert Plant, I'm never gonna stand on the stage and try to sing without a guitar."
When he was 22, Lackey finally picked up a guitar. "I just figured I could learn a couple of easy songs and have a guitar sitting around my house to look cool." With the help of a friend and a guitar instruction video, Lackey learned to play and decided to form a band right away. He heard about a guitarist living in a halfway house. "I got him out because he was just such a great guitarist. Moved him in with me and just soaked it up for about a year and a half." The arrangement finally went sour, but Lackey says he learned how much he had to practice. "I really spent about three years where I practiced about 10 hours a day."
Lackey's first band was Ten Mile Bayou, named for the bayou he used to play in that ran past his house in West Memphis. When he left that group, Lackey formed Kings of the Delta. His sister, Lee Kathryn Lackey, describes their sound as "a soulful dose of Southern groove rock. Being from this area, we're known for rock and blues and all that stuff." Clayburn says the music pays homage to rock and blues, "but also broadens it with a little more soul and a little more Southern grease." Lackey used his old band's name as the title of the first Kings of the Delta CD, which includes an array of guest artists, including Kirk Smithart, Dave Cousar, Rick Steff, Eric Lewis and John Stubblefield. ~Michael Donahue
10 Mile Bayou
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