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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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Michael Van Merwyk & Bluesol

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Michael van Merwyk (MvM)- Guitar-Player, Singer, Songwriter.... "Blues has got to move your Soul and keep your legs shakin!".... MvM ist a triple treat...a soulful and unique Guitarplayer, a songwriter and storyteller and singer. Plus he is one of the few exponents of Lap Steel Players in the Blues-Field who makes this tiny instrument sing, howl and talk..... Praised by public, musicians and critics MvM is a modern day bluesman who has his own stories to tell and his own music to play with hats off to bluesmen and storytellers all over the world....... New CD out now!..Michael van Merwyk - Catching The Rain"..Debut-CD with 12 Originals by MvM incl. "OH YEAH! 4.0", "A Soul ain..t worth a Dime", "Here Comes Love", "Hard Way To Go", "The Boogalizer"; one song co-written with Larry Garner plus a re-recording of Larry Garner..s "Nothing But Life" .... Featuring: Larry Garner, Ali Arlt (BB & The Blues Shacks), Erk...