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.
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