Soulsville  Souled Out ‘n Sanctificed  - with Danny Brooks and the Rockin Revelators
 
You recognize it when it comes through the speakers: it's another musician who has their own version of The Voice. The Voice: that special mix of power, rhythm and blues, heartfelt truth, and majesty. It's a southern thing mostly-a blend of a soul food diet (Gregg Allman), a childhood in the Arkansas Delta (Levon Helm), knowing the Creator as guidance (Solomon Burke), or being born to play the blues (Bobby Whitlock).
It's a voice that growls with a passion, rumbles from deep in the belly like a tiger's purr, and scrapes against the vocal cords like it was gravel going down a chute. And Lord have mercy, You know the children who bring it to fulfillment. They're out there making His music-and one of them is Danny Brooks.

Some strong conviction, people: He sings, "I wasn't born down in Memphis, but Memphis lives in my soul." You can fill your plate with that and never go hungry again, because Danny is every inch and pound a man of "Soulsville" hospitality. Who wrote this song: Johnny Cash? Too soon did we lose you, John-you'd have loved this one. The same chugging pressure is there. Give a listen to Brooks and the Revelators and you'll be yearning for warm Tennessee nights on the back porch with a dobro, sweet tea, black-eyed peas, cornbread and gravy, and gospel breakfast meetings. You've been Souled Out `n Sanctified. But keep an eye on your map coordinates: Danny's from Ontario. A Canadian with the earthiest feel for the Word and the good folks down yonder.