T-Bird and the Breaks :: Learn About It

If you didn’t know any better you would think that this debut from the Austin based 11-piece T-Bird and the Breaks was some long-lost 60’s funk/soul/R&B disc, but with a modern sounding production. With the powerful and incredibly soulful vocals of T-Bird (aka Tim Crane) upfront, backed with an extremely tight band, horns and 3 female backing vocalists Learn About It is impressive from start to finish. Over the course of nine cuts they mix things up from the bluesy “Blackberry Brandy” and the Temptations’ like drive of “Two-Tone Cadillac” to the heartfelt soul-drenched ballad “Sunday On My Own” and the horn-driven stomp of “Stand Up” tackling them all like they’ve been together for 30 years. Learn About It has been spending a lot of time in my CD player lately and is definitely a front runner for my best of 2009 list tbirdandthebreaks.com