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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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A Whole New Land - Noam Dayan - New release Review

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I just received and had the chance to review the newest release, A Whole New Land , from Noam Dayan and it's quite good. Dayan, a multi instrumentalist starts off the set with a Lightnin Hopkins track, I Just Don't Care , featuring his solid vocals and authentic guitar work. On o riginal track and title cut, A Whole New Land , Dayan plays some pretty bluesy riffs on a Rev Gary Davis style track. Very nice. Next up is a quartet of Muddy Waters tracks, Canary Bird where Dayan not only sings great but also demonstrates a real knowledge of authentic style Morganfield riffs, I Can't Be Satisfied keeping the track stripped and actually sounding quite fresh, Long Distance Cal l where he not only plays and sings great but also adds a nice harp part and Down South Blues again kept acoustic and raw. This is a very nice contained of acoustic Mud. On another original track, Love Fell In Love With You , Dayan sounds a bit more contemporary but still not traveling far from the roots o...