Powerhouse of Blues: Lydia Pense & Cold Blood @ Powerhouse Pub, Folsom, CA
Powerhouse Pub [Folsom, CA]
Event info
| Date: | August 25, 2024 |
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| Time: | 3:00 pm |
| Location: | Powerhouse Pub |
| Address: | 614 Sutter Street #D Folsom, CA |
Details
The word legend certainly applies to Lydia Pense and Cold Blood…and not in some past-tense-make-a-living-as-an-oldies-act sort of way either. Pense can still shout like a 60’s soul diva and purr a slow blues tune with spine-tingling subtle.
Lydia Pense & Cold Blood debuted when the Fillmore was at its peak as one of the nation’s musical Meccas. Owner Bill Graham was so impressed with Lydia’s voice and the sound of the band that he immediately signed Cold Blood to his new record label. During the span of six original late-60’s, early-70’s albums, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood helped, along with Tower Of Power, forge their own specific brand of funk/soul and R&B which came to be known as East Bay Grease. That music still holds up today, proving that great music is timeless and will continue to inspire generations to come. Their initial four albums Cold Blood, Sisyphus, First Taste of Sin and Thriller remain their best known work.The band continues to record and perform today.
Of course there is Lydia, who still has the chops with the patina of a seasoned veteran who’s done and seen it all. Together she and the band continue to twist R&B (both Old School and New School) into something that doesn’t have a label. On any given night, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood power through their historic essentials like “You Got Me Hummin,'” “I Just Want To Make Love To You,” “I’m a Good Woman,” and “Down to the Bone.” Now there’s a whole new CD of future classics that draws on their heritage but is not stifled by the past. Able to draw from the first new Cold Blood album in three decades, Lydia and the band blast out a set that covers 40 years of thumping, throbbing, East Bay funk.