First Listen: The Suffers, 'Everything Here'
On the group's second album, Kam Franklin and The Suffers revel in the multidimensional, multicultural possibilities of their take on soul.
Early on, Kam Franklin didn't take kindly to being told that since the world already had Sharon Jones & The and Brittany Howard and her fellow , there just wasn't a slot available for another woman of color fronting a soul outfit. "I found it hard to believe that in an industry filled with festival lineups that had tons of young white male musicians, wearing the same outfits and playing similar chord progressions, there was no room for me and my band," Franklin wrote in an .
