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Rock, blues, funk and soul at Clearwater festival
The Alabama soul/funk band St. Paul & the Broken Bones, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is one of the most interesting acts booked for the 2022 Clearwater Jazz Holiday.
The 43rd such event, this weekend at Baycare Ballpark – regular venue Coachman Park being a construction zone and all – features three bands or artists on Friday and Saturday, and four on Sunday.
It’s more rock, soul, blues and R&B than jazz – it’s been drifting that way for years now – but the lineup is solid, including the great jam band guitarist Warren Haynes and his band Gov’t Mule, Dumpstaphunk, New Orleans’ Trombone Shorty, Charlie Wilson (ex-lead singer of R&B’s Gap Band), Old Crow Medicine Show and Scotland’s legendary Average White Band, among others.
Broken Bones lead singer and frontman Paul Janeway is like a cross between James Brown and John Belushi’s Jake Blues – he’s a screamer, a dancer, and a wild onstage emoter.
He and the other seven members of the band have expanded the sonic palette on The Alien Coast, their most recent album (released Spring 2022). The deep soul grooves and beefy horns are augmented with psychedelic guitars and gritty stoner soundscapes.
“I’m really just trying to covey to people that I’m not a dumb redneck from Alabama,” Janeway told NPR about the myriad influences that contributed to the songs on The Alien Coast.
“If you listen to our first record, Half the City, and you listen to this, it’s a totally different band. You would think ‘What is this?’ And I know that upsets people at times – which is fine, I get it, I’m glad there’s fans of that – but I’m just not the kind of person who can do the same thing over and over again.”
Friday, Oct. 14
5:30-7 p.m. The War And Treaty
7:30-9 p.m. Average White Band
9:30-11 p.m. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Saturday, Oct. 15
5:30-6:45 p.m. Justin-Lee Schultz
7:15- 8:45 p.m. Dumpstaphunk
9:15-10:45 p.m. Charlie Wilson
Sunday, Oct. 16
3:15-4:15 p.m. Champ Jaxon Band
4:45-6 p.m. St. Paul & The Broken Bones
6:30-8 p.m. Old Crow Medicine Show
8:30- 10 p.m. Gov’t Mule
All event information and tickets are here.
