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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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ELLIS HOOKS with LARRY MITCHELL

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Larry started playing guitar at age 9, after his mom through his drumset out the window. Self taught on guitar. 1986 and 1987 Larry won the New York City "Limelight guitar solo contest. In 1988 Larry toured with Spanish/Italian artist Miguel Bose. In 1990 his first CD came out (Larry Mitchell Grude BMG) 1991 He played on Ric Ocasek's Fire Ball Zone Cd and appears in the music video "Rockaway". In 1991 Toured with Rock singer Billy Squier and appears in the music video's "She goes down" and "Hollywood". In 1992 toured with Folk pop sing songwriter Tracy Chapman. Larry has worked with worked with various artist- TM Stevens (black rock christmas TV show Germany and Japan The band was called "THe Crunch") Sandra Bernard's music video "Super Star". And in 1993 Waner Bros. released Larry's guitar instructional video 'The Linking System". In 1993 Larry's 2nd CD release "Mind Body Soul" came out on Gu...
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