Rhythm and blues is alive and well and people want to see it.

Concorde 2 was packed with a crowd that wanted fun and that's what they got.

Nathaniel Rateliff delivers music with a true lineage of country and blues with a seven piece band who play flawlessly. With such a combined sense of excitement, they seem to bounce as one on the stage and this energy and the familiarity of their songs is transmitted to the audience.

The band look like they had been drawn from the saloon of a seventies western with Rateliff pouring out the songs with all the feeling of a gospel singer.

With influences of honky-tonk, Otis Redding and blue grass he's also obviously a big fan of Van Morrison too.

Their songs have strong bass lines, backed with whirling organ and are powered by trumpet and saxophone which at times blur into near psychedelia.

Though their hugely loved favourite SOB is what the crowd had been waiting for, suddenly we were in a real hoe down.

The audience bellowing out every word, the band at times stopping completely and letting us take over before melting in again seamlessly. A joyous heart-warming night out.

Four Stars.