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Overton Music artist: Russ Green - Stone Cold - New Release Review

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 I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Stone Cold , from Russ Green , and it's a driving blues rocker. Opening with Lint Redux , you are immediately in the middle of a swampy blues with modern effects. With a firm foot stomp by Felix Pollard on drums and Vic Jackson on bass Russ Green on harmonica and vocals really has the earthy feel. Giles Corey on slide gives the track great grease and Green's harp work is strong. Excellent opener. 12 Feet of Water opens with a terrific harmonica aria before grinding into a super drum driven romp. With the feel that I can only describe as Hill Country , Green delivers such soulful vocals, comforted by Joe Monroe on keys, this track just grabs you. Green's harmonica is like a shuddering wind blowing through you with the thumping bass of Vic Jackson and Vince Agwada on guitar. Excellent! Easy going shuffle, Nobody Knows has a smooth, supple melody with backing acoustic guitar, minimal drum work and melodic ha...
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Johnny Winter's Custom Alembic

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Rick Turner took guitar and bass design to new levels in the early 1970s as a partner at Alembic, and he went over the edge in 1974 with this custom Alembic guitar for blues legend Johnny Winter. Turner took his inspiration for the dragon motif from Winter's tattoos, and the actual design of the dragon came from an Irish carving he saw on the back of a hand mirror his grandmother owned. He carved the dragon into the body of bubinga, maple, mahogany and ebony. He cut the multi-layered "fire" from the dragon's mouth directly from an abalone shell. As a silversmith's helper in the late '60s, Turner made a lot of fabricated, soldered and welded jewelry in copper, brass, bronze and silver, and many of his custom Alembics reflected that experience. For Winter's guitar he handmade the brass bridge and tailpiece and the hammered, 16-gauge brass control cover on the back. He bound the fingerboard in sterling silver and installed LED lights for the side dot markers....
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