GA-20 - Does Hound Dog Taylor: Try It...You Might Like It!Blues music is revered for its timelessness. The best blues no matter how old sounds as fresh and visceral today as it did when first recorded. The high energy electric blues trio GA 20 guitarist Matt Stubbs, guitarist vocalist Pat Faherty, and drummer Tim Carman know this well. The bands dynamic self penned songs sound and feel as fresh and real as the old blues they love and perform, including songs by Otis Rush, J. B. Lenoir, Howlin Wolf, Junior

and represented a much more conscious use of the recording studio's possibilities

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leading to a freewheeling and adventurous atmosphere

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widely regarded one of the greatest debuts of all time

while Where Are You Now

Xylouris White) guest drums on two of the tracks ( Reoccurring Weather & Haxen ) bringing his instantly recognisable style to the Tala Vala sound

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the band had enjoyed cult status in their homeland with their early records having to find their way in to the US on import

there has never been anything else quite like it

the haunting ballad "Five Foot Even" and finishing off with a cracking version of James Brown's "I Can't Stand It"

Anthony DeCurtis