Chuck Brown - We're About The Business

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Watching Chuck Brown and his Soul Searchers "is like participating in a timeline of groove...a steamrolling revue that charges from song to sing-along jam without a break", raved Tom Moon in the Philadelphia Inquirer,and fans will have a chance to do just that as Brown prepares to kick things up in concert in the coming weeks. With live shows that are the stuff of legend -- George Clinton once famously said "man, he killed me with my own song... that Go-Go is deadly" -- Chuck will perform special hometown shows in D.C. (a co-bill with The Roots and a planned cameo with Galactic) as well as rare dates up and down the east coast, including Charlotte, NC on March 3rd and a CD release show April 19th at NYC's Joe's Pub, with additional dates in the works.

The shows are coming out parties for 'We're About the Business, ' Chuck's first studio Go-Go album of primarily new material in decades, and a long awaited follow up the undisputed classic "Bustin Loose." 'Business' is a non-stop party, opening with a staple of recent live shows -- an adaptation of the theme from "The Godfather" -- and featuring highlights such as the head-nodding "Block Party" and the loping rhythmic jam "Chuck Baby", featuring guest vocals by Chuck's daughter KK. The album's contenders for quintessential all night jam are many, but "The Party Roll" may be the standout, with Chuck singing "All you gotta do is let me set the mood for you... Chucky baby's got a brand new groove for you."

In an era where nearly every niche market seems mined to within an inch of its life, Go Go is possibly the only true regional music scene left in America, and Chuck Brown is its Godfather, credited with inventing the unique mix of latin style percussion, "paint-bucket" street corner rhythms and American jazz and soul all laid over the top of an unrelenting Funk groove.

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