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Zac Harmon & The Drive - Live - New Release Review

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 I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Live , from Zac Harmon & The Drive and it's super! Opening with soulful, NTRO , Nate Robinson on bass and Gino Iglehart on drums set a solid foundation, with Corey Lacy building on keys and lush guitar work by Zac Harmon and Kingston Livingston really setting the bar. Terrific opener. Blue Pill Thrill has super movement and soulful vocals by Harmon. Lacy on keys works the rhythm with Robinson and Iglehart and Livingston and and Harmon play stinging riffs on guitar really giving this track some kick. Deep blues track, Feet Back On The Ground features Albert King like stinging riffs and super soulful vocals by Harmon. Keeping the music floor low allows Harmon plenty of space to go dynamically from soft to wow quickly adding real emotion to the track. Excellent! Boogie Down is a strong jam with a firm piano base by Lacy giving Harmon plenty of headroom for vocal corralling. Lacy lays in some real tasty keyboar...
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Roll It Over - Bobby Whitlock with Coco Carmel & Band

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Bobby Whitlock and wife Coco Carmel along with a stellar band performed at a leading South Austin, Texas singer-songwriter venue. Bobby is best known for his time with the early 1970's group Derek And The Dominos, a group fronted by blues guitar legend Eric Clapton Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel have been making music together since 2001 beginning with their live record "Other Assorted Love Songs" , springing up in the year 2003 while in New York and playing live radio , The Kennedy Center , and Sirius Satellite Radio in Rockefeller Center. Since that time they have recorded seven records , the latest being "Metamorphosis" , a live recount of the defunct Lovers CD, only more powerful and intense complete with the same musicians , Stephen Bruton and David Grissom on guitars , Brannen Temple on drums, Andy Salmon on bass and James Fenner on percussion , topping it off with a the world's most gracious guest, Willie Nelson again on CoCo's "True Lov...