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 ...

During his birthday show last year, Barrence Whitfield uncorked a manic rocker called “Girl From Outer Space.” A local hit in the ’80s, it’s a tough one to sing in the best of times, calling for three ...

After a decade-long hiatus, the Boston outfit reunited in 2011; this year, it released Dig Thy Savage Soul. Here, the blues band plays a soulful,... Barrence Whitfield & The Savages On World Cafe ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barrence Whitfield’s turbocharged voice is still hot enough to sizzle bacon fat. Whitfield, 58, burns through R&B and jump blues like he first did almost 30 years ago with his bandmates, The Savages.

Of his his latest album, Under the Savage Sky, 60-year-old garage-rocker Barrence Whitfield says it was meant to give “the kids a musical karate chop to the head.” Released in early 2015 on Bloodshot ...