A Boston-based singer of traditional R&B, Barrence Whitfield is the owner of one incredible pair of lungs and limitless energy and enthusiasm for his music. A soul screamer in the spirit of Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, and early Don Covay, Whitfield & the Savages, though never breaking big nationally, are a great cult act, a triumph of substance over style, with a bunch of terrific records to boot. Barrence's voice and sound has always had little extra rawness and primitive wilderness to it. Whitfield has been hailed as the new Little Richard and as "the greatest singing voice of the past 20-plus years".