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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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Share You With Someone Else - Ernie Johnson

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Ernie Johnson has come a great distance since his job as a cotton hauler. One day, one of Ernie's relatives, Ivory Joe Hunter came to Ernie with a suitcase full of money that he had made while playing the piano. "That right there was my clue to start pursuing a singing career and give up my job as a cotton hauler", Ernie recalls. He packed up and moved to Texas, in 1957, determined to make it as a singer. His first performance was at Club 84 in Mexia, Texas, in the late '50s, where he opened for Lavelle White and Guitar James Walley. By the end of the show, Johnson had upstaged his headliners. He became flattered about his newfound success so he set out to gather up a band to solidify his place in the blues and R & B circuit. He soon started his band by the name of the Soul Blenders. They quickly found themselves playing everywhere from beer joints to VFW halls, anyplace they could find that would hold a band. Johnson's fee for playing, fifty cents to a dollar...
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