The Drinkwater Brothers
The Duplex, NYC, May 18, 2018
Reviewed by Chris Struck for Cabaret Scenes
This duo checks all the boxes of doing things right. They’ll take any gig, they busked in parks as high schoolers, and they memorize long, complicated songs like “Stairway to Heaven.” Presenting works from a variety of styles—pop, rock, folk, and Broadway, to name a few—that spanned at least four decades of music, The Drinkwater Brothers (John and Matthew) should keep on the path they are on.
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They put on the charm and joked around about songs to play next as if they were fishing out their set from a catalogue of favorites. For example, on “Stairway to Heaven,” Matt joked that he might just try it before proceeding to sing the whole song.
All that aside, The Drinkwater Brothers started strong and held a consistent depth with clean vocals while showing an ability to mold selections to their style of music.
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Remarkably, these identical twins had different enough voices to make them distinct, yet possessed all of the uncanny timing expected of two so closely linked. While Matt’s performance on Led Zeppelin definitely had me hooked, John took a strong lead on songs like “Ain’t No Sunshine” (Bill Withers) and an iconic choice in Richie Havens’s “Freedom,” which came out of Woodstock and played off the Negro spiritual with the deeply moving line, “Sometimes I feel like a motherless child”: Astute students of music.
The Drinkwater Brothers traded acoustic guitars and piano from song to song, but were joined on stage by a talented quartet of fellow singers in Sophia Tzougros, Harper Lee Andrews, Bailey Claffey, and Samantha Quinn. While the brothers were most definitely the focal point of the evening, each of these singers showcased well-trained voices and unique styles. Tzougros took on Spring Awakening‘s “Mama Who Bore Me” (Duncan Sheik/ Steven Sater) and dominated. Andrews followed with another from that musical, “Blue Wind,” cleaving a part out of one’s peace of mind with the powerful line, “Wind always wants to creep up and haunt you.”
Claffey had the most unusual voice of these four and also performed maybe the most pop-oriented selection with Alicia Keys’ “If I Ain’t Got You.” She’s got a nice sound and it’s different enough to catch you off-guard. Quinn, on the other hand, took on the more classic syandard in “Fever,” first released in 1956 and written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell, with some additional lyrics by Peggy Lee.
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With a hip shake, power stance, and sly smile beneath a lock of burning red hair that fell across one eye, “Chicks were born to give you fever,” indeed.
You can book The Drinkwater Brothers for private parties, restaurants, wineries, weddings, and other special events, and the rest of the crew might show up too.
