Burn to grow

"Guitar maestro Josh Smith has always been inventive in his work, but he goes the extra mile on this one by delivering the feel of one of his live performances ... This all-original CD - the 10th in his catalog - mixes blues, jazz, rock and soul into a cohesive package. The structure for all of the material remains stellar even though Smith and all of the musicians involved improvised their parts as they went along ... Burn To Grow is head-and-shoulders Josh Smith's best album yet".

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"Put versatile southern Californian guitarist Josh Smith together with brilliant players like Davey Faragher and Pete Thomas from Elvis Costello (...) and other top L.A. musicians and you have the makings of some inventive, genre-crossing blues influenced music ... Smith harnesses a full rich sound replete with horns, background singers, and keyboards traversing Texas Blues, some blues-rock, and mostly southern soul rather surprisingly. Those who have witnessed Smith live though are probably not at all surprised as he's adept at jazz and R&B too ... this impressive album (...) is convincing proof that Smith is far from a one trick pony".

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