St. Paul & The Broken Bones
September 21, 2015 8:11 AM   Subscribe

I heard the debut record from this band when it came out a little while ago and thought it was cool, but it didn't make a lasting impression. However, this video featuring the band performing a house concert in France really blew me away! Skip ahead in the video to about 1:10 in to get to the actual concert: St. Paul & The Broken Bones live at some house in France!
posted by nangsta (14 comments total) 12 users marked this as a favorite
 
Was in my kitchen in April 2014 -- wife was in the living room watching "The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson." I heard something absolutely raw and magical from the living room, and just sort of stumbled into the living room, wide-eyed, and saw SP&TBB performing "Call Me." One of the most awesome things I've ever heard. There is hope for the current generation.
posted by davidmsc at 8:28 AM on September 21, 2015


Thanks - really enjoying this.
Maybe not quite as much as that guy in the yellow shirt, but still.
posted by Kabanos at 8:33 AM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]


If you like St. Paul and the Broken Bones or Alabama Shakes, thank the Drive-by-Truckers, who have a long history of giving up and coming bands from their home state of Alabama opening slots on their tours, leading to the exposure they need to make it big.
posted by dortmunder at 8:48 AM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]


Mod note: Expanded the link. Please don't use url shorteners on MetaFilter, they don't save display space and make it harder to tell where a link is actually going.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:51 AM on September 21, 2015


If you enjoyed the encore, here's a tribute to Otis Blue gig they did before they got signed or went anywhere, there are about 6 videos on the shooter's Vimeo page of them doing cuts from Otis/Sam Cooke.

Here's one of them

Ol' Man Trouble/Respect
posted by C.A.S. at 9:04 AM on September 21, 2015


I've seen St. Paul & the Broken Bones a few times and they are always worth the ticket price. Just a week or two ago they played a nearby amphitheater in monsoon like conditions and we all danced our asses off in the pouring rain. Don't miss them if they come your way!

Bonus: St. Paul performing in The Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert opening night ensemble.
posted by matrixclown at 9:13 AM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


Bonus bonus: NPR's Tiny Desk concert with St. Paul & the Broken Bones (complete with audio download).
posted by MonkeyToes at 9:15 AM on September 21, 2015 [3 favorites]


> (complete with audio download)

What!?!?! Do they provide those for all Tiny Desk Concerts? I end up playing the YouTube videos over and over (and just ignore the video) for some of my favorites all the time just because I like the live versions. This is awesome!
posted by noneuclidean at 9:52 AM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


Was in my kitchen in April 2014 -- wife was in the living room watching "The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson." I heard something absolutely raw and magical from the living room, and just sort of stumbled into the living room, wide-eyed, and saw SP&TBB performing "Call Me." One of the most awesome things I've ever heard. There is hope for the current generation.

So you are just hanging out watching TV and a flash mob comes and does a concert in your kitchen and has a show?
posted by psycho-alchemy at 10:23 AM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]


noneuclidean, there is a podcast feed where you can grab them, too!

http://www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/ and http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510306/tiny-desk-concerts-audio
posted by wenestvedt at 10:51 AM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]


top notch! thank you for this post!
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 11:55 AM on September 21, 2015


So you are just hanging out watching TV and a flash mob comes and does a concert in your kitchen?
Doesn't that happen to just everybody these days? Interconnected World and all. Of course, my kitchen's too small for anything larger than a trio (without acoustic piano, please).

I was a little frustrated with the coverage of "The Tonight LATE Show with Stephen Colbert opening night ensemble", for not giving me an adequate guide to all those Guest Performers I Already Felt Ashamed to Not Recognize. ("Was THAT Ben Folds?") And especially the chubby white guy who was one of the first four singers to walk out and was 500% better than skinny white guy Colbert at delivering the Soul... (and he was just referred to as Paul Janeway, not "St." Paul Janeway)

Between this and the Fox Amoore post, this has been a good day for getting caught up on "the GOOD music I know is out there but haven't kept up on."
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:36 PM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


This is so good.
posted by wemayfreeze at 2:11 PM on September 21, 2015


davidmsc - I saw them perform at UC San Diego later that very night. They taped The Late Late Show then immediately drove down to perform on campus. They put on a GREAT show and pretty much brought the house down. I headed over to the merch table and bought everything I could.
posted by hootenatty at 10:22 AM on September 22, 2015


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