If you’re looking for an R&B singer who is the real deal — a singer who is cut from the same cloth as Little Richard and Wilson Pickett — Barrence Whitfield is more than capable of filling the bill.

%22Dig Thy Savage Soul%22 comes out Aug. 13 on Bloodshot Records Barrence Whitfield %26 the Savages formed out of Boston%27s garage-rock scene of the 1980s The group%27s members hadn%27t played ...

Barrence Whitfield, the boisterous frontman of the terrific garage rock act Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, says his parents encouraged him to sing from an early age. “I heard a lot of music in ...

NEW HAVEN — Barrence Whitfield is a soul screamer who can conjure up spirits and raise the dead with the best of them, and he’s coming back to Cafe Nine on March 16 — so LOOK OUT! If you’re the kind ...

Barrence Whitfield and the Savages play two New Orleans shows, Jan. 10 & 11, 2014. (courtesy Bloodshot Records) While at college, in the late 1970s, a young Boston-area rock 'n' roll hopeful made the ...

Long Gone (The Customs) (with Peter Greenberg on guitar & vocals) I Smell A Rat (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) (with Barrence Whitfield on vocals, Steve Lagrega on saxophone, & PG) One Bad Stud (Jerry ...

To promote the current tour from garage rockers Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, the band’s record label includes a link to a performance that took place a few years ago on Later with Jools Holland ...

NEW HAVEN -- Barrence Whitfield is by no means a stranger to Greater New Haven. His blistering shows with Barrence Whitfield and the Savages in the late 1980s at the old Nightshift Cafe in Naugatuck ...

This kind of thing just doesn’t happen. The headlining band — in this case the internationally renowned, triple-Grammy winning Los Lobos — took the stage for what would become a half-hour encore at ...

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“The first time I ever saw a tank, it was coming down my street,” says Barrence Whitfield. “People were screaming, ‘Oh my God this is like Vietnam!’ It wasn’t. It was Newark.” Newark, and the 1967 ...

Welcome to his nightmare. Barrence Whitfield sings like a man grappling with insanity through most of “Under the Savage Sky” (Bloodshot), and he’s not going quietly. Instead, Whitfield and the Savages ...