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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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Lonesome Jimmy Blues - Jack (John) Erby

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Jack Erby was born in 1902 in Fort Worth, Texas. He was an accomplished pianist, and recorded sessions with Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey. In 1926 he recorded four sides as a soloist. Two were issued under the name Jack Erby and the other two as John Erby. This was one of the songs issued under the name John. Erby wasn't exactly a three chord kind of guy, his piano playing incorporated a lot of jazz inflections. Some of his other recordings could barely be considered as blues. Erby disappeared from the recording scene sometime in the early 30's. JOHN was probably his correct name though having recorded for Columbia under the name of Jack, this later corrected to John. Erby recorded for Paramount, Columbia and OKeh. He used SIX different pseudonyms, even GUY SMITH on Paramount 12806. He recorded 6 piano solos: 2 Paramounts(1929), 4 Columbias(1926), not four as given. He (probably) recorded with Johnny Dodds and Ida Cox, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, Trixie Smith, Edmonia Henders...
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