Name: Too Late To Turn Back Now (Live - Alton Ellis version) by sirlord in Every Little Thing is Gonna be Alright
Duration: 5 min 32 s
Description: Live cover of an old 60's hit by CORNELIUS BROTHERS AND SISTER ROSE, done with an Alton Ellis (Jamaican Great) swing.

Every Little Thing is Gonna be Alright

Week 2: Polar Vortex songwriting challenge using the phrase "Sun goes down", I imagined an old timer from Detroit reminiscing about days gone past.  Recorded in Logic with A444hz tuning. 

Boom Town

I use to cruise down Woodward 
In a smart zoot suit 
Catch a show at the Fox 
Find some pool to shoot

Head up to the Rack
Grab Coney's and stacks
After workin' at the Fish
You just need to relax

Chrysler, Cadillac, Studebaker, Dodge
There was chrome in the streets 
& diamonds on the broads
We were drugstore cowboys 
and the cat's meow

When the sun went down 
In my old boom town

I use to head to Black Bottom 
For some blues and jazz
Hit up the Paradise
For some razzmatazz

Saw Ella & Pearl 
at the Horseshoe lounge
& the Count's big band 
before they tore it all down 

For Interstate highway #75
Right through the neighborhood
People started to drive
Kept me up all night 
with those engine sounds

When the sun went down 
In my old boom town

Then devil's night
Save my soul
Head to New Bethel 
See Aretha blow

The million dollar voice 
was set to lead the choir
Deliver me Father 
from the smoke & fire

I had to walk through the chalk mazes on the ground
I heard little babies cryin' when the shots rang out
I laid awake at night, counted every round

When the sun went down 
In my old boom town

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
She took flight for the suburbs
Left us all behind

Boarded up the windows
and striped all the pipes
For a little bit of copper
You might lose your life

But we'll keep fighting like Joe
With a Jefferson fist
Rising like a phoenix 
from the chemical mist

You may have knocked us down 
But we will never be out

When the sun goes down 
On our old boom town

Boom Town (Demo)

Third Coast Kings 5-21-2014

Live cover of an old 60's hit by CORNELIUS BROTHERS AND SISTER ROSE, done with an Alton Ellis (Jamaican Great) swing. 

Too Late To Turn Back Now (Live - Alton Ellis version)

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Sean moved to Detroit in ‘93, with a band known as Fathers of the Id, a hard rock/psychedelic band that went on to win 1994’s Detroit Music Award’s Best Funk Band.  The Detroit News’ Music writer, Wendy Case, called Sean, “more fun that a busload of 10 year-olds on their way to Cedar Point.”  After the Fathers went on hiatus, Sean moved to Ann Arbor, where he lent his services to the Detroit soul band, The Elevations, which raised a ruckus in Detroit, causing critics to rave about Sean’s “feverishly gut-wrenching vocal delivery.” “Seeing him sweat through his suit, take hold of the microphone and belt through soul tunes.” The Elevations were added to Metro Times’ Detroit Music Family Tree after only two years in the public eye.
Nowadays, Sean’s music is still searching for new sounds as a tool for extending what Soulful music can be.  To this end, Sean is singing with a band around Michigan with a 8-piece deep funk band called The Third Coast Kings. Where Sean’s entertaining style works with the band’s already present groove. One writer described, “The Third Coast Kings and the singer fed off each other to devastating effect, and the energy in the venue, already high, notched higher. Ike barked out lyrics with a confidence and purpose that would've made James Brown proud, all the while sliding around the stage, shaking a tail feather, and inciting the dancers into a greater frenzy.” 
Branching out from U.S. based soul, Sean also adds deeper flavors, mixing 70’s Brazilian Samba-funk and Samba-rock into the gumbo. Blending Brazilian funk/pop hero, Jorge Ben Jor, with Sam Cooke, Sun Ra, and Jimi Hendrix, Sean creates a very nice dish.  “I like playing with a band that can translate all different types of things.  An alchemy of different musics that will still say ‘Soul’ on the label. It will still have that sweet soul vibe, whether it’s funk, Brazilian, or rock, because,” he continues, “when times get tough, Soul music wins.”  And that type of win is always a win-win.


Too Late To Turn Back Now (Live - Alton Ellis version)

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