Charles Bradley waited more than 60 years to tell his story on his debut album, 2011's No Time for Dreaming. Even as he was touring relentlessly to support that album with his backing group, Brooklyn's Menahan Street Band, he was impatient, itching to get back into the studio.
"All it did was open the first page of the first book," says Bradley, whose second album, Victim of Love (Dunham/Daptone), comes out April 2nd. "A lot of things inside me have not been told. They're crying for a chance to come forward."
Whether he's singing about his hungry heart or his deep despair over the world's inequities, Bradley has become known for his pleading brand of hard, classic soul. Though he's been billed for years as Black Velvet, appearing in a James Brown tribute show with another Brooklyn group, the AllStarz (whose members have toured with the Intruders, Clarence Carter and Brass Construction), he's not about smooth: Bradley, also tagged the Screaming Eagle of Soul, emotes like he's trying to be heard in a "Hurricane," to name one new song.
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