The Chambers Brothers

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风格: #迷幻灵魂乐
地区: 欧美

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他们最多被介绍为民谣、迷幻乐队，还包括福音歌曲元素。Chambers兄弟：贝斯手 George, 吉他 Willie和Joe, 竖琴 Lester ，同一血脉的他们是否因基因相连而产生的统一感？他们来自西海岸Lee County, MS，一个佃农耕种的贫困家庭，且都是当地教堂唱诗班成员。1952年George服兵役后，他们在洛杉矶重新组团，并在1954年的南加州粉墨登场，但一直到1965年纽约演出后才多少算是有些知名度，并参与Newport民谣节演出。后来加入的白人鼓手Brian Keenan，在当时种族歧视尚算严重的社会环境下尤为难得，而且他给这个乐队带来了摇滚风格，录制了第一张LP－People Get Ready，并开始频繁在一些俱乐部或是蓝调小酒馆演出。

1968年他们签约哥伦比亚唱片公司，发行专辑Time Has Come Today，这张颠峰之作无论从音乐成就还是产品销量上成为他们之后都无法跨越的高度，其中同名歌曲更是在音乐电台中占据了牢不可破的地位。哥伦比亚公司在90年代发行了 2000张 CD，并收录一些 1966-67 non-LP B-sides歌曲。

虽然被誉为BOB DYLAN的接班人，但可惜的是他们没能继续下去。1972年，在发行最后一张专辑Unbonded. Right Move后，乐队解散。不过幸运的是，之后他们仍偶尔会以家庭组合的方式演出。

by Jason Ankeny

Like their West Coast contemporaries Sly and the Family Stone, the Chambers Brothers shattered racial and musical divides to forge an incendiary fusion of funk, gospel, blues, and psychedelia which reached its apex with the perennial 1968 song Time Has Come Today. The Chambers siblings — bassist George, guitarist Willie, harpist Lester, and guitarist Joe, all of whom contributed vocals — were born and raised in Lee County, MS; the products of an impoverished sharecropping family, the brothers first polished their vocal harmonies in the choir of their Baptist church, a collaboration which ended after George was drafted into the army in 1952. Following his discharge he relocated to Los Angeles, where the other Chambers brothers soon settled as well; the foursome began performing gospel and folk throughout Southern California in 1954, but remained virtually unknown until appearing in New York City in 1965. The addition of white drummer Brian Keenan not only made the Chambers Brothers an interracial group, but pushed their music closer to rock & roll; a well-received appearance at the Newport Folk Festival further enhanced their growing reputation, and they soon recorded their debut LP, People Get Ready.

As the Chambers Brothers toured rock clubs (including the famed Fillmore in San Francisco) and R&B venues (most notably the Apollo Theatre) alike, their music increasingly embraced elements of both; after recording 1968s Shout! for the Vault label, the group signed to Columbia to issue Time Has Come Today, scoring a major pop hit with the title track, an 11-minute psychedelic soul epic in its original album incarnation. The follow-up, A New Time—A New Day, yielded another Top 40 hit, a cover of the Otis Reddings classic I Cant Turn You Loose, but subsequent efforts including 1969s Love, Peace and Happiness and 1970s Live at Fillmore East failed to maintain the commercial momentum. Upon completing 1972s Oh My God!, the Chambers Brothers disbanded, only to reunite two years later for Unbonded. Right Move appeared in 1975, and although no new studio records were forthcoming, the group regularly performed live in the decades to follow, with the brothers also pursuing individual projects; the Chambers Family Choir, a gospel group including the siblings own children, remained a priority as well.

The Chambers Brothers

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