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Eclectic Troubadors
Eclectic Troubadors: Eclectic
by Stephen Latessa
Dave Phelps and the Eclectic Troubadours live up to their name with consistently quirky music that approaches the listener from a variety of different angles, not all of them successful. The most obvious antecedent is the Grateful Dead, particularly the song-oriented era of Workingman's Dead/American Beauty. The album is split down the middle between relatively straightforward pop/rock tunes and more exploratory instrumentals that allow the musicians to stretch out and remove any doubts that they can play.
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