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Chance Hayden: Baritone Gold
ByBaritone Gold refers both to the glittery paint job on Hayden's guitar and the classic-gold milieu from which the crew draws their musical framework. The core trio has the leader bouncing against organ and drums while weaving the instrument's high-and low-end tones each into their own spaces. Clay Giberson's sprightly Hammond B-3 funks up the groove with some occasional noir grooves or juiced-up stabs. As nice as it is to have a few tracks with extra hornsnot to mention two vocal numbers which serve as good-humored homages to Motown and Stax Records, respectivelythings sound no less full or busy with just the core trio wailing and rocking away by themselves.
It can be amusing to play the spot-the-ingredients game: there is the Bo Diddley beat and the Chuck Berry boogie, perhaps some Joey DeFrancesco stomp here or Dick Dale echo-fuzz there. Without resorting to outright pastiche, though, the players play and stretch their familiar musical elements as naturally as tossing a football in a backyard game of catch. Several pieces can almost feel like old under-the-radar 45s that somehow were never heard before, but with production that is thoroughly modern and a cooking playfulness that is always timeless. The best nostalgia is the kind that does not simply stay in the past.
Track Listing
Clean Break; Carolina Summers; Bank On Me (feat. Sean Holmes); One Last Rose; Desert Drag; Doing The Splits; Don't You Wanna Give Me A Call (feat. Dante Zapata); Talkin' It Over; Open Back Cab; No Sign; Rhythm Queen; Sand Stars.
Personnel
Chance Hayden
guitarAdditional Instrumentation
Chance Hayden: Baritone Guitar; Clay Giberson: Hammond B3 Organ; Jason Palmer: Drums; Sean Holmes: Lead Vocals (3); Dante Zapata: Lead Vocals (7); Owen Broder: Alto Saxophone (3, 7, 9); John Nastos: Tenor Saxophone (3, 7, 9); Jans Ingber: Congas & Aux. Percussion (4, 9, 12) ; Rusty Blake: Steel Guitar (10, 12); Alonzo Chadwick: Background Vocals (3); CJ Mickens: Background Vocals (3); Onry: Background Vocals (3)
Album information
Title: Baritone Gold | Year Released: 2024 | Record Label: Peace House Music
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