SAM KININGER BAND | 02.08 | NEW HAMPSHIRE
By Team JamBase Mar 2, 2007 • 12:00 am PST

Sam Kininger Band :: 02.08.07 :: The Stone Church :: Newmarket, NH
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Finding the Stone Church can be a trick. Through a sleepy town, up a steep hill, past residential driveways lined with minivans and lingering Christmas decor, and into the dirt parking lot of a quaint New England church. If it were not for the sole dready jewelry vendor out braving the cold, one might mistake the event for a parish pancake supper. Needless to say, the night was not still young when Kininger and Co. finally found the place and hastily set up shop. But, in classic roadhouse fashion, with nary a soundcheck, the band got right down to it.
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Having cycled through various incarnations of the Sam Kininger Band (and sided periodically with Soulive, Lettuce, and the Brotherhood of Groove) Kininger may well have stumbled upon a formula that works. Glaspie, the young Brooklyn drummer, carried the night. Her rhythmic discombobulation of Soulive’s already-off-kilter “One in Seven” was the show’s highpoint. Her mellifluous vocal work pervaded the evening, often spontaneously echoing Kininger’s horn and Bowles’s clavinet. If anyone was tearing that mother down it was this funky drummer. By the time the band wrapped up in the wee hours this much had become clear: Kininger’s days of collaboration and sideman-ship are over. This time he’s got something he can really call his own.
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