Charles Walker Band - Hope [Live]
This video was shot at Tressa's Downtown Jazz and Blues in Ashville, NC on the band's "Relentless" tour. The song "Hope" is from their latest album and the song was heavily influenced by Sly and the Family Stone and James Brown.
The song was inspired from a bass player that was with us, Larry Hubbord. The lead singer, Porsche, was complaining about getting lots of mosquito bites from the last festival we played and he said, "That's cause you got that sweet meat" and that clicked...what if that was another name for a bootie. After that, the song pretty much wrote itself.
Grounded in blues, the band refined their unique sound into what can best be described as soul, a fusion of funk, r&b and Motown. Though compared to an array of musicians (Sly and the Family Stone, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, George Clinton and Parliment Funkadelics, James Brown), their music retains deep gospel influences and positive lyrical messages.