Right around the year 2000 Static Cling realized that a large portion of their repertoire was falling into the soul, blues and r&b category - both originals and covers of artists like James Brown, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Otis Redding, etc. As a matter of fact, when a club owner from an establishment catering strictly to the blues and r&b crowd caught a 2001 Halloween Cling show at Jellybeans in Geneva, NY, he asked them if they could fill a night with the kind of tough-edged blues-rock they'd just played a set of. Static Cling looked at their master song-list and realized they could. They played the New Year's Eve show at his club that year to a wildly enthusiastic crowd. Thus the birth of The S.C. R&B Review.
When one books the S.C. R&B Review one gets not only an evening of smoking, blue-eyed soul, blues and r&b but one will also be blown away by the 50's/60's "rhythm & blues review" style presentation. Like Solomon Burke and James Brown before them the band has arranged their song to seamlessly merge from one to another in unbroken 15-30 minute streams. (These are not "oldies medleys" with snippets of a dozen different songs. These are full songs that either morph into one another or have tightly structured transitional passages between.) The "I Heard It Thru The Grapevine > I'll Go Crazy > Ain't Too Proud To Beg > 1st I Look At The Purse > Beast Of Burden > What's Going On" passage is guaranteed to take your breath away - both because of it's stunning musical impact and because it won't let you off the dance floor!!!
Call 'em Static Cling or call 'em The S.C. R&B Review or call 'em The S.C. R&B Review (Static Cling)...this band kicks it old school.
