Scone Cash Players

The organ prowess of founder Adam Scone anchors Miami's Scone Cash Players, whose sound fuses raw deep funk with soul-jazz in a vintage vein. Scone has long performed with revivalist outfit the Sugarman 3, while his bandmates have logged time in the Dap-Kings, the Budos Band, the Menahan Street Band, and the Tonight Show Band. The Mind Blower marked their debut full-length in 2008; a decade later the group resurfaced with additional albums and singles, among them Brooklyn to Brooklin, which Daptone released in 2022.

Adam Scone has served as the Sugarman 3's organist since the ensemble formed in 1996, and he issued the solo set The Wild New Electric Organ Sounds of Adam Scone in 2002. He subsequently joined JJ Grey & Mofro's Southern blues-rock fusion project and launched Scone Cash Players. Released on his OrganTone Records imprint, The Mind Blower featured Sugarman 3 guitarist Al Street, saxophonist and flutist Cochemea Gastelum of the Dap-Kings, and drummer Eric Kalb, whose credits include John Scofield and Melvin Sparks. The single "The Slitter" surfaced in 2009, after which the Players paused activity while Scone contributed to albums by singers such as Daniel Merriweather, Gregory Porter, and Kat Edmonson.

Scone settled in Miami in 2015 and shifted his primary attention to Scone Cash Players. The 2017 single "Year of the Rooster" paved the way for Blast Furnace!, issued in 2018 on Flamingo Time/Mango Hill Records. Drummer Homer Steinweiss, guitarist Thomas Brenneck, and saxophonist Ian Hendrickson-Smith—each a veteran of the Dap-Kings and affiliated groups—rounded out the lineup. "Old Faithful" and the holiday single Scone Cold Christmas, which featured guest vocalists Lee Taylor and John Dokes, closed the year. As the Screw Turns, the third album, arrived in 2019 and included gospel and blues singer Naomi Shelton on "My House Is Small (But I Dream Big)." Colemine reissued Blast Furnace! in 2022, while Daptone put out the Players' fourth album, the Brazilian-inspired Brooklyn to Brooklin, that same year.