Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears Rocked Great Scott Friday

We wish we had something smart to say about Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, or beautiful pictures to post of them, but technology and time have thwarted us, so all we can offer is a dark, crappy cell phone image and a small but effusive amount of praise formed nowhere near as elegantly as the band's powerful melodies.

When thinking of this band, we get as tongue-tied as a third-grade girl around her latest crush. It's music so good you're speechless, so rhythmic you move without knowing it, and so alive that you have to experience it in person. We're thrilled we managed to get to Great Scott on a rainy Friday evening to watch the venue's usually-passive hipster crowd become absolutely transformed by BJL's remarkable blend of blues, funk, soul, and awesome. If you weren't there, you seriously missed out, as the band played tunes like "Sugarfoot" and "Gunpowder" that completely commanded the audience's attention and got our feet moving. We confirmed in excited (and, possibly, intoxicated) post-show texting with fellow concertgoers that it was the "best show ever."

Sadly for Boston, the Austin-based band has now fled New England "spring" for warmer points out west. Lewis and the 'bears will be touring with Lucero in Texas and California throughout May if you find yourself yearning for a reason to travel. If not (or even if so), buy the new CD, Tell Em What Your Name Is! We bought it. And our friends bought it. That's how good this band is—we didn't even want to wait for someone to burn us the CD (copyright laws aside). Short of following the band across the country, we just had to get straight home to our "Big Booty Woman."