What does a band do when the lead singer loses his or her voice? Most o the time, there’ a scramble to find someone to fill in Friday night, not only was Rae of Rae and The Royal Peacock out sick but the bassist, Harold Patillo, was out, too. Luckily, Darryl Lee, one of the […]
The Vipers played Darwin’s Saturday night and delivered a soulful, satisfying show. “You like it old-school?” lead singer and harmonica genius Ira Malkin asked the audience. “That’s good because so do we!” There’s a lot of varieties if “old-school” and this one involved lots of T-Bone Walker, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson and other tunes […]