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Kings Go Forth

On May 31st Luaka Bop will release the debut album by Kings Go Forth, the Milwaukee based soul band co-founded by Andy Noble, proprietor of the fabled Lotus Land record shop, and long time Milwaukee area R&B performer Black Wolf.

KGF was co-founded by Noble and Wolf after the two met in Andy's record shop circa 2004. An immensely talented singer and writer, Wolf has performed around Milwaukee since the 1970s and, as a member of The Essentials, recorded at Curtis Mayfield's Curtom studios. Since meeting they have assembled a powerhouse group that is simply one of the most thrillingly creative new bands to be heard, in any genre, in the U.S.A. today, delivering it all with fierce urgency and undeniable emotional commitment.

The album features nine original songs written by Noble and Wolf including the Moulton mix "Don't Take My Shadow." The album's lone cover is an impossibly obscure soul lament written and recorded in a prison. In addition to Noble and Wolf Kings Go Forth features Andy Noble on bass, Dave Wake on keyboards, guitarist Dan Flynn, percussionist Cecilio Negron, Jr., the explosive drummer Jeremy Kuzniar, Trombonist Dave Cusma trumpeter Jed Groser, vocalist Matt Norberg and rhythm guitarist and vocalist Dan Fernandez.

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