Description
This is the album that fans probably expected Trombone Shorty to make three years ago—a straight-ahead R&B disc. At the time, Shorty instead hooked up with Galactic’s Ben Ellman, whose inventive techniques transformed his studio sound on Backatown and For True, much as Daniel Lanois did with the Neville Brothers on Yellow Moon. And just as the Nevilles followed two experimental discs with the straight-ahead Family Groove, Shorty gets down to basics on Say That to Say This: No loops, very little hip-hop influence – just a soulful, band-centric album heavy on New Orleans funk.
