The Explodo Boys

Formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the early 1970s. The Explodo Boys played a wide range of music, but was rooted in a soulful sound. With as many as nine performers on stage at a time, the early alt-country band had a big sound which was especially impressive in the many smaller venues they played throughout the mid 1970s. They morphed into a band that blurred the boundaries between Soul, R&B, Funk, and Jazz, winning a 1979 Musician's Insider Connie Hechter Award (for best over-all band) before disbanding in 1981. The band re-formed in 2000-2002, many of its original members are still active.