Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

The Savage Story.............In all my years of writing about mighty rockers in the pages of ‘zines like Crawdaddy, Circus, Rock World and Ring I’ve never encountered a harder puncher than Barry White of Newark, New Jersey, a.k.a. Barrence Whitfield of Boston, Massachusetts. When he hits the boards with the Savages you’re either gonna ride the energy or be crushed by it. I am talking Jack Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Wilson Pickett, Smokin’ Joe Frazier. Barry has what they all possessed, the one thing a trainer cannot teach a fighter – the lust for mayhem. The wilder, louder, more insane the Savages bring it, the more BW is ready to stage dive into the mosh pit of hell. It’s a shirt-ripping, shoe-flying experience that you have to see to believe.
BW is reunited with the garage/R&B guitarist Peter Greenberg, the visionary who started this organization more than 30 years ago. The new Savages get plenty of enthusiasm from Andy Jody on drums, Tom Quartulli on saxophone and Kane Kitchen on bass.

John Swenson