The Chicken Slacks

Boston's premier funk and soul revival band The Chicken Slacks have established themselves as a fixture in local funk lore as the band that succeeded the legendary Little Joe Cook in the Thursday residency spot at the historic Cambridge, MA nightclub The Cantab. With their sound firmly rooted in the Stax and Memphis tradition, the seven-piece group's influences range beyond southern soul, from funk (Eddie Bo and Sly Stone) to boogie rock (Creedence, Beefheart). Their Cantab residency (now four years running) is jammed every week, the unpretentious, sweaty crowd of regulars filling the dance floor, the band providing the funk and soul grooves that keep them coming back.