JC Brooks
(musical composer for Candy From Strangers)
JC Brooks, the son of a Jersey funk diva set adrift by the disco era, is the theatrically-trained lead singer of Chicago's JC Brooks And The Uptown Sound.
Signed by Bloodshot Records, JCBUS has toured North America and Europe, attracting an enthusiastic grassroots following while garnering the support of the likes of NPR and AAA radio with their cover of Wilco’s “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” (which they performed with Jeff Tweedy at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival in 2011). MOJO Magazine called them “one of the hottest US soul acts right now”. JCBUS spent 2012 on the road supporting their previous Bloodshot release, Want More, with appearances at Lollapalooza and Bumbershoot, and an incendiary World Cafe Live double bill with Gary Clark Jr.
Their latest album, Howl, will release on May 21st and the band is hitting the road for spring East and West Coast tours and a European leg leading up to Firefly Festival in June.
Signed by Bloodshot Records, JCBUS has toured North America and Europe, attracting an enthusiastic grassroots following while garnering the support of the likes of NPR and AAA radio with their cover of Wilco’s “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” (which they performed with Jeff Tweedy at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival in 2011). MOJO Magazine called them “one of the hottest US soul acts right now”. JCBUS spent 2012 on the road supporting their previous Bloodshot release, Want More, with appearances at Lollapalooza and Bumbershoot, and an incendiary World Cafe Live double bill with Gary Clark Jr.
Their latest album, Howl, will release on May 21st and the band is hitting the road for spring East and West Coast tours and a European leg leading up to Firefly Festival in June.