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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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Solomon King Brings His 'New School Blues' To Hollywood's Piano Bar

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  Solomon King Acclaimed L.A. Guitarist Brings His "New-School Blues" To The Piano Bar In Hollywood - Saturday, May 11       (Hollywood, CA) - Solomon King , talented purveyor of "New-School Blues" and no stranger to the Southern California music landscape, performs in concert at The Piano Bar , 6429 Selma Ave., Hollywood, Saturday, May 11. 9 p.m. No cover. Info: (323) 466-2750 or logo onto https://www.facebook.com/Pianobarhollywood?fref=ts .      King - a 2009 Grammy Awards entrant nominee in the Contemporary Blues category for his Under The Sun release - was recently in the news for " The Phil Spector Incident ," his movie remake of the high-profile Phil Spector trial that also includes a ten-song companion soundtrack ( "Live On" ) with a stripped-down, sensuous version of Spector's Wall of Sound classic, "Be My Baby." "With King, the blues are in good hands,...
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