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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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Hammerhead - T.A. James

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Born in Syracuse NY at a relatively young age, T.A. James is a blues guitarist/bassist with a 20+ year career. In ’90, he joined premier Salt City blues outfit, The Kingsnakes as guitarist, which traveled the East Coast and as far west as Mississippi. In ’95, James got the call to do a weekend of Canadian dates on bass with the late great Chicago blues harp legend Carey Bell, which turned into an 8 year association. This version of Carey’s band toured much of the US, Europe and Japan. In addition, he was a successful freelance guitarist/bassist in the Syracuse blues scene and elsewhere between ’92 and ’04. Durham NC became James' home in ’05. Since ’07, he has been performing primarily as bassist with the red hot Zydeco-Cajun flavored blues quartet Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos. When not performing with the ‘Mojos, James does freelance work with other NC blues standouts such as Tad Walters and Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen, as well as performing as a solo. As a solo, he recently com...
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