Jahn Xavier And The Bowerytones: New Album On The Way
We've been patiently awaiting a new release from Jahn Xavier, the former lead singer with the 1980s soul band The Nitecaps, since catching his solo set at the Max's Kansas City Reunion last year and being blow away by Jahn's soulful ground rumbling singing.
I also interviewed Jahn at some point and if you have't read the two part trip to the Local East Side in the 1970s catch up here and here, At the time X was promising to release some new material but it has been a long wait. Still, it seems to be getting closer everyday and I was thrilled to get a rough cut (it is waiting another guitar) of "I Still Yearn", a very, very powerful gut wrencher of a song, as powerful as the word "Yearn", a loaded distraught heartbreaker that stops the show when he plays it on stage.
You can't have it yet but it is this close to being ready for the world. Jahn writes: "There are 12 more. Most of the rockers are not yet mixed, as we added new guitars this past week.". So it feels like a couple of months and if you have yet to listen to his band the Bowerytones get ready to remember just how great blue eyed soul can be in the hands of a great rock band.
In the meantime, here is the title track off the Nitecaps album from 1982:
