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The City Champs: Luna '68
by Doug Collette
The instrumental trio of guitarist Joe Restivo, organist Al Gamble and drummer George Sluppick first came together as the City Champs in 2007. After the release of The Safecracker (Electraphonic Recordings, 2009) and The Set-Up (Electraphonic Recordings, 2010), the three musicians were then drawn in different directions; Restivo, a member of the Bo-Keys, supported artists such as Don Bryant and Percy Wiggins, while Gamble joined St. Paul & the Broken Bones and Sluppick performed with JJ Grey & {{Mofro as ...
read moreLeo Welch: Sebougla Voices
by Chris M. Slawecki
For decades, singer, guitarist, fiddler and harmonica player Leo Welch has played and sung fertile, deep South country blues and gospel at smalltown picnics and parties in and around his hometown of Sabougla in north central Mississippi, where he also leads the local gospel group Leo Welch & The Rising Souls, and belongs to the Skuna Valley Male Chorus and the Sebougla Voices vocal group. On Sabougla Voices, titled to honor these roots and their attendant ghosts, “Bud" Welch stomps ...
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