Name: Remember by Robbin Kapsalis and Vintage#18
Duration: 4 min 30 s
Description: A retro blues/soul sound with whiskey-soaked vocals and open-hearted lyrics about love, heartbreak and good times. Stunning rhythmic interplay and searing guitar riffs deliver eight original songs and two covers.

A retro blues/soul sound with whiskey-soaked vocals and open-hearted lyrics about love, heartbreak and good times. Stunning rhythmic interplay and searing guitar riffs deliver eight original songs and two covers.

Grit

Good Eye

Remember

Poor Me

Just Got Back From Baby's

Pieces

Million Miles

Circles

Is This Too Good

9. Its Alright

#ForTheKnee Lyrics

This how I break it down for the knee
Ship sinking and y'all bound to let us drown on our knees
If we make a sound y'all ain't pleased so we silent and y'all still gonna cut us down to our knees
Trash man and his trash clan sees god hears what we be sayin when we're prayin on our knees 
This fight is for justice it's what we fukn bleed and y'all all pissy when that fukn song ain't what you think it means
I don't fuck wit 45 or his team our King had a dream and it wasn't us on these knees
Screaming in silence, the sound that freedom rings
Quiet before the storm we implore y'all to heed
The voices of your choices 
The pain your way brings
The apathy indifference lack of empathy please 
Stop hating black and brown h-u-e
Puerto Rico needs the Eagle and we need you all to see exactly why we take a knee

[For the knee]
Why do we always find ourselves
[For the knee]
Oh lord
There ain't enough love and they still tryyin to shove us to the back of the bus / We're surviving but still we have a mountain to climb / They keep on knocking us down / And we haven't discovered that we gon need each other to shine on

Y'all think that we don't what's goin on
Marvin we have the answers to your song
No matter what we do they say we wrong
Cuz they NEVER accept that they the ones who BEEN WRONG / They keep us fightin by showing us what the truth is / The truth is they shoot us down in ev-er-y way / Ev-er-y day / Momma and Dad they fukn had my back / Cuz Our Mothers and Fathers BEEN living war on black / How y'all ignore-all-that / Deny all that-you-see / You know we beggin for your myth of e-qua-li-ty / Control the po-li-cy / Poison the food we eat / Cuz it's a problem for us all to live the same kinda free / Why do you want my folk to d-i-e / Or maybe not but you're cool with ya old tapestry / Y'all outta style bitches / Every generation's the style of the time / But the governing style is stuck in rewind / Fuk y'all design / I'm / Not muthafukn 'fraid of ya / How can you not love what I'm sayin to ya / And I'm still praying for ya / Y'all can't persuade me to go to the masquerade / Cuz I ain't got one ounce of faith in ya / I'll stay grounded for the people and for the knee / uh / Spine straight alignment with my chin up shoulders back third open eyelid I ain't waiting for your free / No / Mind state refinement won't be silent when a tyrant is commander in chief / Fukn right I'm on this knee / 

[For the knee]
Why do we always find ourselves
[For the knee]
Oh lord
There ain't enough love and they still tryyin to shove us to the back of the bus / We're surviving but still we have a mountain to climb / They keep on knocking us down / And we haven't discovered that we gon need each other to shine on
[For the knee]
Why do we always find ourselves
[For the knee]
Oh lord
There ain't enough love and they still tryyin to shove us to the back of the bus / We're surviving but still we have a mountain to climb / They keep on knocking us down / And we haven't discovered that we gon need each other to shine on

ForTheKnee

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D.C.-based Soul-Blues band Robbin Kapsalis and Vintage#18 debuts with their album titled GRIT. 
 
The album reflects the band’s love of classic 60’s Soul and Blues, featuring a mix of originals as well as two covers (ZZ Top and Bob Dylan) and a whole lot of elbow grease. Grit, you might say. 
Vintage#18 chose to self-produce GRIT, and a framework was in place before most of the album was written. One of the goals when they first started rehearsing was to make sure that the sound didn’t fit solely into a single genre. Blues, Soul and other familiar elements appear but should mix in a way that brings unexpected experiences for listeners and dancers too. This idea worked well in live settings, so the album was approached the same way. If you do it, stay true to it—but you can always do “it” in new ways.
 
Performing together since 2013, the band started in the clubs near their home in Northern Virginia. Residencies in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia are the backbone of a circuit that extends across the Eastern Seaboard. In 2016, they represented the Central Virginia Blues Society at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee and continue to appear in the city. They have been fortunate to share stages with several great performers, among them The Nighthawks, Billy Price, Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials and Albert Cummings.
 
They’ve always shared the same thoughts about music and in particular their live shows, “we’re here to move you, one way or another.” The sound reflects their love of traditional blues and soul but also the desire to bring it current for new audiences. Vintage #18 brings a high-energy show with hard-driving blues rhythms and soul grooves that will move you. Built on a framework of uniquely talented and dedicated musicians, the album features the unique sound of Bill Holter on guitar (a.k.a. #18), while the groove is laid down by Alex Kuldell on drums and Mark Chandler on bass. Soulful vocals are delivered by newcomer and bandleader Robbin Kapsalis, and the collective Good-Mojo-Getdown is provided by all.
 
There’s a lot to say about making music in general but sometimes words don’t cover it. When you write, rehearse, play and record music then you’ve said a lot already. So really the only thing left to do is hear it. Vintage #18 hopes that you do, but you might want to move some furniture first. No sense getting hurt when you’re movin’ and groovin’, y’all.

Remember

Robbin Kapsalis and Vintage#18

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