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Quintus McCormick Blues Band: Hey Jodie!
by Nic Jones
It's clear from this release that Quintus McCormick has undergone a radical change of direction in the course of his musical life. In his formative years he was by his own admission hung up on Steve Howe of Yes but it's clear that as of November of 2008 when this set was recorded the fixation had long since passed. In the meantime he's become a master of what might be called the nuances of the blues, especially with reference to ...
Continue ReadingQuintus McCormick - Put It on Me! (2011)
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Something Else!
Quintus McCormick doesn't quibble with genre on this new project from Delmark Records. Instead, he sings with a remarkable facility, at once bright and sweet then hard and accusatory, sounding at times like some after-midnight deep bluesman and then like a spit-shined mainstream soulster—and moving, along the way, well outside of any neat modern-day pre-packaging. Put It On Me! illustrates, definitively, that he can look, and this is such a rarity, both forward and back. And so, we have McCormick ...
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