Get Together: Banana Recalls Youngbloods Classics
Grandpa Raccoon
Even serious Youngbloods fans may have had a hard time keeping up with Lowell Levinger (the artist almost formerly known as Banana) since that group disbanded 42 years ago.
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Colin Lake
One Thing That’s for Sure
Louisiana Red Hot
Colin Lake traded in the Pacific Northwest for the Deep South, relocating from Portland, Ore., to New Orleans and finding a mentor in musician Eric Lindell. “One Thing That’s for Sure” is Lake’s second post-migration album, continuing his metamorphosis into a notable blues/soul/R&B singer-songwriter who excels on slide and lap steel guitar.
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The Aristocrats
Tres Caballeros
Boing
Instrumental rock/fusion trio The Aristocrats take flight on their third studio album, eschewing their modus operandi of “live-in-the-studio with no overdubs” in favor of expansive sonics via texturing and layering, and recording at storied Sunset Sound studios in Hollywood after road-testing their new material.
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Arlen Roth
Slide Guitar Summit
Aquinnah
Throughout the past half-century of recorded music, the idea of “more is better” has been explored. A few examples:
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Nathan James
Hear Me Calling / Natural Born That Way
Sacred Cat Recordings
Blues artists with a great voice as well as phenomenal guitar chops are rare.
And there are even fewer double albums with one disc acoustic, the other electric. (In the blues category, Taj Mahal’s 1969 landmark “Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home” and Nick Moss and the Flip Top’s 2007 set “Play It ‘Til Tomorrow”come to mind.)
