Featured video
Can't Change It
"Jumper On The Line"
Produced by: Marco Giovino
Featuring: Luther Dickinson, Cody Dickinson, and the North Mississippi Allstars
The Mystix ® 2020
ANOTHER KIND
OF LOVE
Featured Track
Jo always had a strong Latin rhythm in his mind when he wrote Another Kind of Love in the early 2000s. The track was shelved for a few years while Jo ironed out club material. The track found life when Bobby and Jo formed The Mystix and started gigging steadily. Playing beside them were Marty Richards on drums, Marty Ballou on the bass, and Tom West hammering the keyboards. We knew that the track was clicking from working the club scene and chose to record it at Bobby’s studio in Saugus on all analog equipment. Although the band has not performed this particular tune in some time, Jo thinks it might be time to bring it back to our live venues.
All the best,
Jo Lily (Vocals, Writer)
Album: Blue Morning
Release Date 06/01/07
"Greatest swamp band you've probably never heard"
-Chicago Sun Times
In the News
So sweet to see a new Mystix album!!! They don’t release much, but it’s always high quality when they do. And the new ‘I Can’t Change It’ is a bona fide gem, bridging Americana blues, soul and rock with singer Jo Lily leading the way with wisdom-laced, warmly deep vocals that sound like a mix between modern-day Bob Dylan with touches of Howlin’ Wolf and Dr. John. Jo moves from outlaw blues to smokey mood pieces to stunning, soul-searching originals […]
Cooltourist The band Duke And The Drivers had been on the Boston music scene since 1973, and in the years to come they earned a reputation as a crisp R&B party combo. For a long time the unmistakable frontman was Jo Lily, given the stage name Sam Deluxe. At the beginning of the second millennium AD he left the Drivers and founded The Mystix a little later, without making any significant stylistic changes. In the meantime the band can present […]
Peter Marinus, Blues Town Music Try to imagine the following: Howlin’ Wolf as the singer of an Americana band or Captain Beefheart who sings the blues with devotion. Both fantasies come true on the seventh album by the American band the Mystix. A band consisting of Jo Lily (vocals, ex-Duke & the Drivers), Bobby Keyes (guitar, a studio musician i.a. with Mary J. Blige), Tom West (keyboard), Marty Ballow (bass), Duke Levine (guitar) and Mario Giovino (drums, producer), plus guests […]
Can't Change It
Biography
Can’t Change It features twin lead guitars of Bobby B Keyes and Duke Levine, coupled with the unique vocals of Jo Lily. The rhythm section features Marco Giovino on drums and Marty Ballou on stand up bass, as well as an outstanding lineup of guest appearances, including the North Mississippi All-Stars, the legendary Charlie McCoy, famous British pedal steel player B.J. Cole (“Rocket Man”), and keyboardist extraordinaire Tom West.