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Showing posts with label Zac Harmon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zac Harmon. Show all posts

Monday, July 9, 2012

Urban Eagle artist: Zac Harmon - Music Is Medicine - New Release Review


I just got a copy of the new Zac Harmon release, Music Is Medicine. Harmon is joined by Cedric Goodman on Drums, Corey Lacy on Keys and Buthel on Bass. The recording opens with Miss American Girl, a lighter R&B style blues and is actually pretty catchy. Blue Pill Thrill (pretty self explanatory)sets a modern blues groove path and Harmon plays very stylistic blues riffs throughout. This track with it's great bass line and story line is destined for airplay... and the Albert Collins like guitar riffs spell icing on the cake. Running From The Devil takes a Stevie Wonder sounding intro riff and parlays it into a totally different style of soul rocker. Grandma's Prayer is a strong soul ballad that starts off quiet and on the final third of the song Harmon turns up the heat. Really cool track. Drowning in Hollywood again takes the rock side of the blues and Harmon plays one of the longer guitar solo's on the recording. Country Boy snaps out there and grabs ya with a cool blues guitar riff. This track has some real nice background vocals which add some particularly cool textures to the track. Overall this may be the coolest track on the recording. Talk To Me actually pulls a lot from the Philly sound but takes a reggae influenced spin. Again an interesting trip. Harmon sings a smooth duet with Sueann Cardwell on Wounded and setting up a pretty nice blues infused guitar solo. Another track that could easily garner strong airplay. Harmon wraps the recording with Joanna. This track is a very commercially strong track and has all of the components to take the cake .... strong vocal harmonies, dance rhythm, catchy horn riffs, stinging Johnny Guitar Watson like guitar riffs and just overall great sound. Someone looking for a deep blues recording won't find it here but if you like your music with a bit of soul, strong ballads, cool, smooth vocals and stinging guitar.... this may be one of the coolest of the year.
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Sorry... could not find any of the cuts from this release on youtube...here's an example of Harmon's playing.


Thursday, February 16, 2012

I Know A Little Blue Bird - ZAC HARMON


Born and raised in the heart of Jackson, Mississippi, Zac Harmon is a true disciple of the music that emanated from the city’s historic Farish Street district, universally recognized as the home of such great blues legends like the late, great Elmore James.

While in high school and college, Harmon gigged as a guitarist for the likes of Z.Z. Hill, Dorothy Moore and Sam Myers. Relocating to L.A. in the early eighties, he worked as a studio musician and then established himself as a writer and producer, crafting songs for the likes of the O’Jays, Whispers, Karyn White, Alexander O'Neal and Black Uhuru.

Composing and performing music for a movie score, Harmon was compelled to pursue his longtime dream to return to his roots and record his first Blues project. The result was 2002’s Live at Babe & Ricky's Inn, an electrifying testimony to Mississippi Blues, which showcased the sound at its best and introduced Harmon as a true torchbearer for the “next generation of the Blues”. In 2004, with his then band, the Mid South Blues Revue, he won the Blues Foundation’s prestigious International Blues Challenge (IBC) title of “Best Unsigned Band".

That release was followed by The Blues According To Zacariah, which garnered major national airplay, including XM, Sirius and the American Blues Network. XM listeners voted Harmon “Best New Blues Artist” in the inaugural XM Nation Awards in 2005. In 2006, Harmon won the Blues Music Award for “Best New Artist Debut” for The Blues According to Zacariah. Later that year, he was featured in Blues Revue magazine, as one of the 10 artists that “…represent the future of the blues”.

2007 saw Harmon named to the Blues Foundation’s Board of Directors and entering into an endorsement deal with Category 5 Amplification. In 2008, he released Shot in the Kill Zone in Europe, recorded live at the Lionel Hampton Room in Paris. He then signed with the Northern Blues label for his third and much-anticipated U.S. album, From the Root that was released April 2009.

Harmon also marked his acting debut in ’09 with a major role in the independent feature film Black and Blue, which is to be released in 2010. Also, in 2009, he was honored for his career achievements in his beloved hometown at the Jackson Music Awards and weeks later in Nashville, the Jus’ Blues Music Foundation bestowed the “Little Milton” Guitar Award for “Outstanding Guitar Player” upon him.

Zac Harmon entertained U.S. troops in Iraq and Kuwait in 2008 as one the stars of Bluzapalooza and while headlining “The Pizza & Pyramid Tour” of Sicily, Italy and Cairo, Egypt in late 2009, Harmon and company made history with a rare performance at site of the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx, making the ensemble only the second Blues act to do so; Louis Armstrong being the first.

More recently, Zac was featured performer for the 2010 “Mississippi Celebrates its GRAMMY® Legacy” celebration, hosted by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, where he was presented with a Peavey Award by Peavey Electronics founder and CEO Hartley D. Peavey. The Peavey Award honors the state's many GRAMMY® winners and nominees as well as individuals who have played a significant role in developing and furthering Mississippi's musical heritage.

Zac Harmon continues to tour internationally as an ambassador for the Blues
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