The Groove Krewe - Run to Daylight (2022)

The Groove Krewe, featuring Nick Daniels III from Dumpstaphunk, drops a ton of seriously funky New Orleans R&B all over their new release Run To Daylight
The group is run by South Louisiana masterminds Rex Pearce and Dale Murray, who are both top musicians, producers, and songwriters who have seen their original songs find homes in films, on national TV, and on the radio. For this project that features lights-out vocalist and bassist Nick Daniels III of Dumpstaphunk, Pearce and Murray assembled an agile and talented bunch of Louisiana’s best players and dubbed them The Groove Krewe for reasons that will become obvious once you start listening. The sessions went down at Techno Sound Studios in Baton Rouge with Grammy-nominated engineer Nelson Blanchard at the board and were mixed in New Orleans by Grammy Award winner David Farrell.
Daniels is an absolute monster of a musician with a strong, soul-drenched voice and bass chops that have led him to gigs with The Neville Brothers, Uptown All-Stars, Zachary Richard, The Wild Magnolia Indians, Allen Toussaint, and Etta James. With Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Daniels has played major venues across the USA and opened for The Dave Matthews Band and The Rolling Stones. He has more than earned his place in the firmament of New Orleans music and brings a lot to this particular party. The Groove Krewe lineup of drummer Eddie Bayers, percussionist Nelson Blanchard, lead guitarist Jonathon “Boogie” Long, rhythm guitarist Rex Pearce, keyboardist Nelson Blanchard, and the horn section of Jason Parfait and Ian Smith completes the picture and puts out nothing but horsepower on every tune here.