The Word Heads to Boulder Theater Tonight

Z2 Entertainment is proud to present The Word featuring Robert Randolph, John Medeski, & Luther Dickinson, Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew of North Mississippi AllStars at the Boulder Theater tonight, October 9th, 2015. Tickets are on sale June 26th for $32.50 advanced or $35 day of show.

Fourteen years may have passed between albums for THE WORD, but that's no suggestion of broken bonds. Nor of broken strings. A love of music, of extended improvisational collaboration, of closing the eyes and channeling the feel -- these are the ties that bind THE WORD.

THE WORD plays the hymnal of the electric improvisational church. They don't struggle with arrangements, and they leave room for each other to stretch out. They toured together after their 2001 debut, and have reunited occasionally, including Bonnaroo in 2005 and 2012 and the Jam Cruise in 2010. One big difference between the first album and the new Soul Food is how much more knowledge each has accumulated.

Soul Food reflects the band's geography, beginning in a New York studio and finishing in Memphis at the home of Hi Records (a studio untouched since 1969, where Al Green recorded all his hits, where Mark Ronson recorded "Uptown Funk"). In New York, they each brought material to the table-Cody brought "New Word Order," inspired by listening to Dr. Martin Luther King's "Free at Last" speech; he took the chord changes Dr. King evoked and the rhythm of his delivery and developed the song. John brought "Swamp Road," inspired by New Orleans pianist James Booker and previously rendered on an obscure session John did with DJ Logic. Robert brought "Chocolate Cowboy," which Cody drives with the sanctified church beat that gets the congregation popping out of their seats and doing the sacred equivalent of the punk rock pogo. Robert's mellow and seductive instrumental "The Highest" already has R&B singers clamoring to put words to it.

Tickets are on sale at Fox Theatre Box Office. Call (720)-645-2467 for tickets by phone. Tickets are also available through www.foxtheatre.com.