The Mighty Souls Brass Band at @HueysRestaurant in East Memphis

Although I was still somewhat tired from several days of Clarksdale’s Juke Joint Festival, when I saw that something called the Mighty Souls Brass Band was playing at Huey’s in East Memphis Sunday night, I had to go down and check them out, as I hadn’t even known that Memphis had a brass band at all. The Mighty Souls tend more toward the traditional New Orleans brass-band repertoire rather than the hip-hop attitude and swagger of the younger New Orleans bands like TBC or Hot 8, but they are musically competent and enjoyable, including some friends of mine such as Tom Lenardo on drums (at least in their indoor incarnation) and Tom Link on tenor saxophone. I have yet to see them on the street, but their club set was quite enjoyable.