Join us at Bell’s Eccentric Cafe on Friday, May 9 (2025) to celebrate the release of Love & Sorrow, the latest recording by Kalamazoo’s own Out of Favor Boys. The album features 11 original compositions that reflect the band’s numerous influences, incorporating rock, soul and blues into a thoughtful collection of songs.
OFB will be joined by friends and guest musicians who played on the record to perform the new songs, as well as some classic OFB jams. The horn section and organ highlight the group’s roots in soul and blues, as well as their commitment to keeping people on the dance floor.
Since coming together in 2003, Out of Favor Boys has been a blues staple in the region. OFB won the 2017 West Michigan Blues Society Blues Challenge, winning the right to represent WMBS in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2018. They represented the Kalamazoo Valley Blues Association in the 2004 IBC. For more than 20 years, the group has played festival stages, smoky bars, music clubs and private shows from Detroit to the West Michigan Lakeshore to Northern Indiana and Chicago.
OFB has recorded five studio CDs and one live double-CD. Love & Sorrow was co-produced by OFB and Pete Galanis and primarily recorded at La Luna Studios in Kalamazoo.
The songs:
- Lost for Good
- Backup Plan
- Good Girls Go to Heaven
- American Dream
- Come Home from Chicago
- Sunrise on You
- Swishy
- Beg or Borrow
- Over and Over
- Face Value
- Here She Comes
The Band:
- Danny Ouellette – guitar and vocals
- Joel Krauss – guitar and vocals
- Tim Brouhard – bass and vocals
- Tommy Ufkes – drums and percussion
- Tony Sproul – saxophone and vocals
Produced by Out of Favor Boys and Pete Galanis
Recorded at La Luna Recording & Sound in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Engineered by Samuel Peters.
Additional recording, mixing and mastering at 3011 Studios in Chicago, Illinois
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Pete Galanis
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