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Album Review

Acoustic trio trades gear for electronics to pursue a musical “revelation." Oh, that's original. A skeptic might say the “revelation" is that John Medeski sells more records than Keith Jarrett, making the anti-unplugged bandwagon a good place to be right now.

So the Lousiana-based Friends Of Gravity are stuck proving they're something more than another me-too act on their 2005 debut album, Thankful. More often than not, they deliver. They're not exactly defining concepts, but play enough of ...

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Extended Analysis

Friends of Gravity: Thankful

by Paul Olson
March 6, 2005

Friends of Gravity Thankful Self Published 2005

The Louisiana groove trio known as Friends of Gravity aims its sound directly at Jamband Nation on its debut CD, Thankful. The group--consisting of Andy Bourgeois on a multitude of keyboards (and on the leadoff track “Horeshackin', tenor sax), Tommy Sciple on electric six-string bass and acoustic bass, and Simon Lott on drums--is fascinated with sonic texture and the almighty groove, and Thankful provides plenty of both. ...