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USA Today’s Listen Up highlights “Out of the Blue”

USA Today’s music critic Jerry Shriver reviewed “Out of the Blue” in their Listen Up: Weekend Plugs section, calling it a “ deft survey of the blues landscape.”

* * * PULLING POTENT STRINGS

Classically-trained jazz violinist Howes sketches the outlines while guitarist Ford and one-time Ray Charles organist Bobby Floyd provide the pigments for this deft survey of the blues landscape. The covers work best — particularly the takes on Horace Silver‘s Cape Verdean Blues and Chick Corea‘s Fingerprints— while Howes originals like the title track and Bobby’s Bad meander a bit. A nice exception, however, is his Seek and Ye Shall Find, which plays a gospelish Sharon Hendrix vocal off of Howes’ and Ford’s slithery interplay. — Jerry Shriver

You can find the full review page HERE.