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Lift Up on CD

Mighty Souls Brass Band. The band has a new album coming out in January called "Lift Up". It was a dream Sean Murphy had fostered since high school, ever since he'd first dipped an ear into the Dirty Dozen Brass Band's discography. Murphy had a vision of a brass-band outfit anchored by a tuba bass line-a combo that could draw from New Orleans traditions, but one that mainly honored the deep, wide-ranging musical history of Memphis, Tennessee. Murphy explains more in this quote from an article about the band by Eric Waggoner: "We're not interested in just being a bunch of Memphis musicians playing New Orleans-style brass band music. We love that music, and we honor it. But we love Memphis music too, and world music, and we want to pay tribute to that history. And it's a deep one." Lift Up is that it's the first album released on the new Blue Barrel Records. BBR is a non-profit label that plans to work with unique artists and release two albums a year.