— Thirty-nine-year-old Martin Luther McCoy is in a rare class among his generation of indie musicians, a gifted funk soul rocker who has recorded and toured with The World Famous Roots Crew and channeled Jimi Hendrix as the character “Jo-Jo” in director Julie Taymor’s 2007 Beatles-inspired film Across The Universe, all while still managing to remain outside of the homogenizing influence of auto-tuned “black star power”. Even his twitter moniker “@MartianLuther” alludes to his outlier status. Over the course of the new decade, McCoy has produced three solid, soulful offerings under his own “Rebel Soul Music” imprint—the 1999 debut offering The Calling, 2004’s Rebel Soul Music, and a live album in 2006—nurturing a worldwide cult following in the process. McCoy shifts musical perspective between reformed street player, sweaty guitar slanger and slick erotic seeker, and much like his fellow musician-in-arms Cody ChestnuTT, he is faithful to his non-conformist muse. A heavily schooled devotee of his musical forebears but with an open ear to modernity, Martin Luther bravely keeps himself to the open road. From his native San Francisco, the musician chopped it up with Soulsummer.com about a possible upcoming tour with ChestnuTT, the passing of his older brother and the trials of a modern-day soul traveler.

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