It's tough, the music business. Especially when every other rock band around sports their "unique" blues influence around their necks. It's even worse when you're an honest blues rock trio that actually has good songs. Thankfully, the Soledad Brothers have not disappeared into that fading blue landscape of rock gravestones.
Before their breakup in 2006 they managed to release four full LP's that harnessed a true delta blues and Brit-rock soul. Curiously, one of the founders Ben Smith (AKA Ben Swank) was the room mate for some time in the 1990's of the White Stripes' Jack White who might have had something to do with the continued success of the now defunct band.
White engineered their self titled debut in 2000 with occasional guest percussion by the incomparable Meg White. As a side note, the other founding member Johnny Wirick (AKA Johnny Walker) taught Jack White how to play slide guitar and is featured playing slide on two songs on the White Stripes debut album. The third member, Oliver Henry, who played sax and guitar for the band was also recruited by fellow stompers The Greenhornes just before the release of their second album.
Posthumously, Walker now plays in a band called the Cut In The Hill Gang based out of Covington, Kentucky. They released a single vinyl in Fenruary of last year through The Little Room Record Co. and have a full LP scheduled for release this summer.
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