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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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Little Wing - Gitlo Blues Band

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Gitlo Lee was born on a turpentine farm among nine brothers and three sisters in Menola -- that's a town on the skirts of the Okefenokee Swamp in lower Georgia, where the South couldn't get any deeper. Gitlo was raised by Church of God in Christ parents, his father a minister, his mother extremely devout. Religion, which from time to time has a reputation for maintaining a relatively humorless environment, resigned in the Lee home, and eventually kept Lee from beginning his blues career earlier that he could have. In addition to attending Sunday services, Gitlo went sneaking around juke joints to hear the sultry, what some called devilish, sounds of the blues. Just listening didn't get him close enough to the action, so Gitlo made his first guitar out of Prince Albert tobacco cans, a burned tire and wire tied to pennies. "Gitlo is Gitlo, and he's a unique phenomenon," said the bass player for Gitlo's Blues Roadshow. He typifies the real blues experience. ...
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