“Mugzy’s Move,” the band’s big-label debut, was recently released. Records thought enough of the group’s market potential to ink a recording contract. The band’s Louis Jordan-influenced, jump-jive music has found a devoted though relatively small following in a handful of cities such as San Francisco, L.A. Vocalist Eddie Nichols used to wonder whether the audience for his band, the Royal Crown Revue, would end up consisting of a few “blue-haired grannies.” That was a legitimate concern for the young Los Angeles group when it formed in 1989, during a period when the ballistic sounds of gangsta rap and Guns N’ Roses were all the rage, and there wasn’t a particularly significant demand for ‘40s-style swing bands.īut the seven-member Royal Crown Revue, which appears at the Galaxy Theatre on Friday night, appears to have safely avoided that fate for the moment.
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