Lou Stein

The Lou Stein Trio: House Hop/The Lou Stein 3, 4, and 5

by David Rickert
August 16, 2002

Before Dave Matthews was even born, guys like Lou Stein were all the rage on the college campuses. The equivalent of the modern day cover band, the Lou Stein Trio played lightly swinging music for dancing and recorded a few albums along the way, two of which are collected here. At first, Stein’s approach seems like little more than cocktail music, so much so that one expects to hear glasses clinking in the background. However, Stein is actually a gifted ...