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Cliff Hines: Wanderlust
by C. Michael Bailey
Colleague Dan Bilawsky's razor review of Wanderlust noted that: “Guitarist/vocalist/composer Cliff Hines is a product of this environment [New Orleans], but he's also a man of his own time. He mixes, merges and melds many a style into his musical cauldron but, most importantly, he captures the zeitgeist of 2013." Listening to a bootlegged performance of Traffic at San Francisco's Winterland 01/26/1973 confused the issue when it melded into Hines' opening piece, “Brothers." Searching ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
The melting pot mentality of New Orleans is responsible, in some part, for the existence and evolution of jazz in the first place, so it should come as no shock that it still serves a central hub for creativity and experimentation through combinatorial musical means. Guitarist/vocalist/composer Cliff Hines is a product of this environment, but he's also a man of his own time. He mixes, merges and melds many a style into his musical cauldron but, most importantly, he captures ...
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