Saturday, July 23, 2011

Bo keys' Ben Cauley considers soul alive after Otis Redding plane crash and stroke

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Ben Cauley was the only survivor of the plane crash, the life of Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kaysband of the singer took. The trumpeter has still nightmares about regaining consciousness in the cold water of the Wisconsin Lake, where the aircraft went. Feared he fly to the accident?

"No, no," the Memphis musician tells spinner. "Matter I flew Act, the home after the crash."

Cauley has been a survivor of the true soul, as several members of the Bo-Keys, a "new" band, which are already more than a decade around. Guitarist Charles "Skip" Pitts played the famous Wah Wah-intro to Isaac Hayes'Theme from "Shaft" ', and drummer Howard Grimes, a longtime member who Hi started at the age of 12 years with Stax Records rhythm section.

After the plane crash, Cauley played with the reformed the bar-Kays but quit a few years in 1971 to raise to focus his family. For many years, he worked as a session musician, recording with Hayes, Al Green and much more from the city sizes.

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The late of 1980s the trumpeter suffered a stroke. His speech has since, but not his ability to play affected. He eased back into the music business residing in a Memphis nightclub called da Blues the way-which was at the Airport found out, of all places.

The Bo keys second album, "got to get back!," Note on the two-part title track has several guest appearances, including a cork from Otis. Moreover, it does the kind of energetic soul instrumentals, which could inspire only Memphis. The band namesake, Scott Bomar, is the owner of Electraphonic recording, which released the album. He and trumpet player Marc Franklin provide the next generation of Memphis music.

Between album-her debut came in 2004-the nine-Member Bo keys worked soundtracks for 'hustle & flow' and 'Black Snake Moan.' After their recent Blues Album, Cyndi Lauper , Electraphonic record, Bomar saw an opportunity to make the showcase record, to cut, which the band had hoped for many years.

"We have weakened so we just all had a great sound in the Studio with her," said Bomar. "I said, ' OK, we now to cut a record." "All in the way we are are not leave gonna.'"

Cauley and feed each other, the two trumpeters, outnumber - or perhaps because of neo - the many years that separate them. Franklin was a child prodigy Bobby bland band played at the time he was 21.

"He is one of the best musicians I know," says Bomar, "and I say that not just because it is in our band."

And Cauley, with his penetrating high notes sound still brings the signature he created first hit with the bar-Kays, 1967 "finger soul."

The patience of the youngest and oldest members alike was worth. "Things happen they never as fast as you want", Bomar says. "But they happen when they are supposed to."

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