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Professor Louie and The Crowmatix: Wings On Fire
by Glenn Astarita
Professor Louie (Aaron Louis Hurwitz) and the Crowmatix hail from the artist colony, Woodstock, NY and have backed guitarist Rick Danko (The Band) amid other projects, along with their notoriety as supreme audience pleasers during live performances. Yet part of the magic lies within the group's harmonically attractive song-forms, replete with memorable themes and the Professor's resonating vibrato-inflected vocal delivery. The ensemble plays several of The Band's comps during live shows and from an organic, honky-tonk standpoint, there ...
read moreMichael Falzarano: We Are All One
by Doug Collette
Redoubtable sideman to Bay Area notables including Hot Tuna and The New Riders of the Purple Sage, guitarist Michael Falzarano offers inspiration throughout his third CD that consolidates the talents that have proven so reliable over the years.
It's a little surprise Falzarano's aided and abetted here by a star-studded cast of musicians, 'The Extended Family' to Falzarano. Yet it's not just names that distinguish such standard fare as the easy-going shuffle of opener Why I Love You I Can't ...
read moreProfessor "Louie" and The Crowmatrix: Flyin' High
by Dan McClenaghan
Professor Louie", aka Aaron Hurwitz, played a major role--as co-producer, thrice--in the revival of The Band's recording career. The Band: the Hawks behind Rockabilly Ronnie Hawkins in the late fifties ("Who Do You Love); Dylan's sizzling, frenetic mid-sixties touring unit; The Weight", Up on Cripple Creek", The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", Stage Fright". That Band.That quintessentially American group (four-fifths Canadian)disolved after The Last Waltz" (memorialized in the Marty Scorcese film), but got back together again--without former ...
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