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It's an experiment that went right. It had the potential to not. Three separate artists, young and impatient to get more ideas out of their heads than any one album could accommodate, each having to share time with two peers, rolling from Deep South blues country studio to Deep South blues country studio to combine personal experience with posterity recording. Without question, it could have gone awry, but it didn't. These three guitarists/vocalists, swapping out rhythm sections, ideas, and even studios throughout the creative process, synced.

Here, we see a unique burden added to the artists' workload; the burden of continuity. No one engineer or producer could have made that possible, with all those nomadic variables. Only the artists can take credit for that singular, fine accomplishment. Listen to them and celebrate an unlikely but wholly successful roll of the dice. Fourteen songs, none crashingly distorted. Variety without discord.

(©) 2006, Arthur Shuey
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