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2009 Year End Lists thus far........
1/5/2010Austin Chronicle's Music Critics - Texas Top 9's #1 on Jim Caligiuri's list #3 Thomas Fawcett #4 Chase Hoffberger #2 Margaret Moser http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A933512 #10 - Austin American Statesman (Peter Mongillo) -...
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Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears performing "Sugarfoot"
9/22/2009To watch the performance, click here
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Black Joe Lewis on TAVIS SMILEY
9/11/2009Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears Singer Joe Lewis and guitarist Zach Ernst of blues outfit Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears stop by to share their new CD, Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! To hear the show, click here
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BLURTING WITH… Black Joe Lewis
9/11/2009BLURTING WITH… Black Joe Lewis By RANDY HARWARD Maybe you were feelin' Sharon Jones-ed to death, full to edge of puking on the glut of new or previously unheralded soul artists? It wasn't just Jones and her Dap-Kings - there's Bettye LaVette, the...
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Photo gallery! Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears at the Troubadour
9/2/2009Great photos from the Troubadour courtesy of www.rollogrady.com. Click Here to view the photos from the Troubadour!
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STAR TREK’S DEAD, MAN
9/1/2009BLACK JOE LEWIS AND THE HONEYBEARS: STAR TREK’S DEAD, MAN August 31st, 2009 Black Joe Lewis is a Texas soul shouter who would have been at home on Sue in 1966 but finds himself instead on Lost Horizon with his band the Honeybears. He’s opened for...
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Feature on Wired.com
9/1/2009Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears’ Hot, Sticky Soul Sweetens the Pot at Outside Lands By Nick Bowden August 28, 2009 Black Joe Lewis isn’t one to boast about his vocal prowess. These days, the forceful singer is the suave frontman of...
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On the Horizon
5/18/2009BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS: On the Horizon Austin-based musician Black Joe Lewis’ Lost Highway debut, Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is! has just been released, and already he seems somewhat reticent to discuss it and himself. Perhaps the...
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Hello, My Name Is Joe
5/12/2009Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Lucero Date/Time:Fri., May 15, 8:00pm Hello, My Name Is Joe "With Redding, Pickett and Brown all long gone, young Lewis has arrived to carry their torch with his hot and sweaty house-party ruckus." To read the whole...
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Beaming up with Black Joe Lewis
5/7/2009Austin musician says he grew up loving 'Star Trek' because it combines some of his favorite things By Patrick Caldwell AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, May 07, 2009 Soulful, yet nerdy One Austinite you'll likely find in the opening-weekend...
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Lewis is legit. Ow!
5/7/2009GOOD MUSIC GUIDE March-April '09 BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! 89% LOST HIGHWAY The first time in earshot, it would be easy to mistake Black Joe Lewis for straight James Brown rehash. Tell 'Em What Your Name...
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Joe Lewis' heavyweight sounds is turning heads
5/7/2009By ANDREW DANSBY Three weeks ago Joe Lewis got fired from his job shucking oysters at an Austin restaurant. It was curious work for a man who plays guitar. “I’ve stabbed myself in the hand a couple of times in that place,” says Lewis. “But that’s the...
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BREAKING OUT - Hot New Band: Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
4/30/2009Breaking Out Hot New Band: Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears Texans serve up R-rated garage soul with a little help from Spoon. By Kerry Miller For the past eight hours, Black Joe Lewis has been driving a van around Austin, Texas, delivering...
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BAND OF THE WEEK
4/30/2009Hometown: Austin, Texas Band Members: Black Joe Lewis (vocals, guitar), Zach Ernst (guitar), David McKnight (tenor sax), Eduardo Ramirez (baritone sax), Darren Sluyter (trumpet), Bill Stevenson (bass), Matt Strmiska (drums), Ian Varley (keyboard) Album:...
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ON THE RECORD
4/30/2009Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears sell their soul amalgam A passion for a spectrum of roots music styles fuels their debut album. By Randy Lewis Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears ...
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Quick Spins
4/30/2009TELL 'EM WHAT YOUR NAME IS! Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears Too many garage bands enthralled with '60s blues and soul tend to be either too slavish or tongue-in-cheek for their own good. Not this unhinged eight-piece from Austin, which,...
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STILL MAKING A NAME FOR HIMSELF
4/30/2009LISTENING to Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears' new album, "Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!" could make you break out in a cold sweat. The eight-piece band out of Austin, Texas, is one of those throwback soul ensembles powered by Memphis-style horns, bass...
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Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears deliver rugged, tuneful R&B
4/29/2009Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears deliver rugged, tuneful R&B By John Staton If you saw the Austin, Texas, garage soul band Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears during either one of their two Wilmington appearances in 2008, you can now say that you saw them...
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Give it his all night after night
4/29/2009NUVO.com Retro Soul With Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears — Joe Ogara When asked to describe the music that he and his band plays, Joe Lewis says that he would like to call it soul. “The thing is these days when you say ‘soul music’ some people think...
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The Reviews Keep Pouring In
4/3/2009Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! is quickly becoming one of the best reviewed albums so far in 2009! Check out our ever growing list below. Click to read the entire review. Riverfront Times "...hook-laden old-school funk..." PopDose "...the most fitting name...
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The Sound of 21st Century Garage Soul
3/16/2009(4 OUT OF 4 STARS) Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears By ANDREW DANSBY Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle The vibe of Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!, an outrageously energetic album of 21st-century garage soul by Austin’s Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears,...
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Best Album of the Year So Far
3/13/2009James Brown may be dead, but his soul is reincarnated in Black Joe Lewis. Talk about refreshing: Joe and his 7-piece, Austin-based backing band, The Honeybears, are a raw, unadulterated throwback to the edgy soul, blues and R&B of the late 1960s and...
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...the kind of fun that hurts like hell in the morning
3/13/2009This Austin band's music careens between sweaty Otis Redding, on-th-lam James Brown, and blues-soaked Rolling Stones. It's vintage shoes-off, drink-spilling, filthy grooving for the kind of fun that hurts like hell in the morning. DOWNLOAD NOW: "Big...
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#4 Song Every Man Should Be Listening To
3/13/2009"Bitch I Love You" Because there is currently developing in the culture a rich tradition of "bitch" songs (Cody Chesnutt, "Bitch, I'm Broke"; Ludacris, "Move Bitch"). But this Austin neo-soul outfit's is the most affectionate.
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The Spirit of '60s and '70s R&B
3/13/2009Existing somwhere between the revivalist soul of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and the blues rock of the Black Keys, you'll find Austin's Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears. Emrcing soul, funk, R&B and garage rock, the band's debut, Tell 'Em What Your Name...
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A Kick to the Stomach
1/29/2009Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!, the debut album from Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears is set for release by Lost Highway on March 17. Formed in Austin, TX, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears is an eight-piece, garage-soul ensemble featuring groove-laden...
