It's only fitting that one of most enduring American touring rock bands perform at one of the newest music venues on the North Shore next week.
The nearly 50-year-old NRBQ, or the New Rhythm and Blues Quartet, is scheduled to make a stop at The Cut on Wednesday, Aug. 21, with The Goddesses.
The Kentucky-native band was founded in 1965 by pianist Terry Adams and performed on stage for the first time in 1966. It now claims 12 past members, the current lineup includes Adams, Scott Ligon, Casey McDonough, and John Perrin.
NRBQ has released a series of albums in the past decade, among them Keep This Love Goin' (2011), Brass Tacks (2014), the five-disc, 50-year retrospective, High Noon (2016), and Turn On, Tune In (2019).
In 2020, the band released it first-ever rarities collection, InFrequencies. The album included career-spanning 16 tracks, 12 never-before released, include live and radio performances, soundchecks, and rare singles.
Its latest album, Dragnet, was released in late 2021, the band's first studio album since 2014. Released by Omnivore Recordings, it includes 10 originals, with contributions by every member of the band, and an arrangement of the classic TV theme song.
In Americana Highways, Bill Bentley wrote of NRBQ, "They play with such startling and powerful simplicity, a style that must be earned and not learned."
Meanwhile, Uncut wrote, "[it's] as though the history of 20th-century popular and unpopular music has gone through thorough, playful distillation."
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