Fat Box
Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
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"...It was then out the door and over to State St. Pub for the highlight of my evening. Fat Box started around 10 PM and blew me away. Their varied and oh so interesting set included Widespread Panic, Frank Zappa, Beatles, and Rush covers, as well as several originals in a jam-band, progressive style that’s right up my alley. All this is delivered by five guys who manage to play not only the usual guitars, bass, and drums, but two of them switch off to horns from time to time. Bassist Kevin Woolen absolutely nailed the vocals on “Tom Sawyer” (despite an errant mic that shot out some pretty bad feedback until they shut it off), and so did the band as a whole. Actually, they were nailing everything, so that explains my delight. The other talented members of Fat Box are Murf Adams on guitar and trumpet, Jonas Butler on drums, Clay Powell on guitar and vocals, and Ryan Stiles on sax." - The Amplifier
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Still working on that hot first release.
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From Jeff Sweeney's write-up in SKYe Magazine:
"FAT BOX - Blurring Lines With The Kickass Factor
Music genre- 1. A categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music.
2. Music is divided into many different genres in many different ways. Due to the different purposes behind them and the different points of view from which they are made, these classifications are often arbitrary and controversial, and closely related genres often overlap.
3. Many do not believe that generic classification of musical genres is possible in any consistent way.
So God gave us Fat Box.
Having spent most of my adult life either working in music retail or dabbling in music journalism 101, I am an admitted genre whore.
Who do they sound like? How would you classify them? Why is Rap merchandised next to Soul? You can't get through a day working in a record store without genre coming up multiple times in one way or another. Working within genres just made my day easier, whether I was selling or merchandising. I have long been a slave to genre, whether I realized it or not.
Fat Box is definitely NOT a slave to genre, and perhaps that is why I have struggled with writing about this band. I can't take the easy way out and let comparison's to other bands do all of the hard work. You can't just say they're a rock band, but they are. They're definitely a jazz band. Is it fusion? Are they a jam band? Yes on both counts.
Wanna drive a genre whore crazy? Show 'em a band that can't be pigeonholed.
Things became easier after Fat Box shared their band philosophy with me, the Kick-Ass Factor.
Simply stated, Kick-Ass transcends genre. And Fat Box is made up of six talented individuals whose common mission is to kick ass
...When asked about influences, they mention everything from Miles Davis and Maceo Parker to Eric Dolphy and Grant Green. Within a minute, we're discussing what choice of covers that they might play on a given night, which includes Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Widespread, the Beatles and Tom Waits. Frank Zappa and Jimmy Page are also cited as major influences.
In other words, anything goes. As long as it kicks ass."
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