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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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D Bomb Records artist - Ray Cashman - Rough and Tumble South - New Release Review

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I just received the newest release, Rough and Tumble South , by Ray Cashman . The release opens with Food Song , a great juke track with a strong rhythm and back beat. This is simple, raw and fun with Cashman on vocal and guitar, Davis Coen on guitar, Grace Askew on backing vocal John Estes on bass and Adam Verone on drums. A more laid back country style track, Simple Life , opens with Ollie Oshen on fiddle and the song is delivered in it's simplest form describing the merits of slowing down. Nobody But You has a definite swamp rock bottom with a great groove. A droning guitar part with a more melodic bass gives Cashman's raw vocals a perfect stage for breathing. I really like this track... let's call it power swamp. Feeling No Pain has a distinct dixieland flavor with the addition of a little banjo by Cashman and some real cool trombone work from Diego Vasquez. Mudbugs is a bit more uptempo and a blend between Appalachian and Cajun style with and rural instrumentatio...
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