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David Fricke's Year in Rock: Shows, Albums and Memories From 2014
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Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Phosphorescent Harvest (Silver Arrow)
Rich Robinson, The Ceaseless Sight (The End); City Winery, New York City, June 15th
Trigger Hippy, Trigger Hippy (Rounder); Gramercy Theater, New York City, November 20th A feast of Black Crowes, in installments: Phosphorescent Harvest is the third, straight winner from Chris' Brotherhood, a California dreaming of day-glo R&B, loamy country and easy-going ascension.
There was a certain FM-radio hit in the first track, "Shore Power," with its Kraftwerk-at-the-Fillmore electro-percolation – if last year had been 1973. Rich's third solo album was a seamless, earthy whirl of electric-blues aggression and psychedelic introspection, with strong hints of Fleetwood Mac's Danny Kirwan in Rich's courtly vocals. He reinforced that connection at City Winery with a great cover of Kirwan's "Station Man", from the 1970 Mac gem, Kiln House.
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