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One of the appealing qualities of what we might call 1970s FM rock was its ecelcdticism. Artists could borrow freely from country, blues, even soul or jazz and fold those characteristics into their sound. And they could still call it rock, as opposed to country-rock or some other hyphenate.<\/p>\n
Calling Cadence isn\u2019t a \u201870s act. Fronted by Rae Cole and Oscar Bugarin, this L.A.-based group is here-and-now. But theirs is a sound that hearkens back to that era, with hints of everything from Neil Young to Van Morrison to any number of artists associated with the Laurel Canyon movement. Even the cover art \u2013 plain off-white with an image of an 8-track tape placed at its center \u2013 screams vintage<\/i>. The closest modern-day touchstone I might suggest would be Jonathan Wilson, specifically his 2018 album Rare Birds<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n There are also subtle hints of Mad Dogs & Englishmen (or Tedeschi Trucks Band, if you like your references with a 2ist century anchor to them) in the sounds of Calling Cadence. And the horns on \u201cGood Day\u201d might just elicit thoughts of Stevie Wonder circa \u201cSuperstition\u201d or \u201cLiving for the City.\u201d One thing you might notice about the band\u2019s approach is the extent to which drummer Josh Adams eschews cymbals on some tracks; that choice gives a nice hypnotic feel to the rhythm section, and it suits the songs. But the heart of the band is centered around its two primary vocalists (Bugarin plays guitar as well). Cole\u2019s warm and assured voice is reminiscent of Rita Coolidge; always a good thing, that.<\/p>\n Soulful<\/i> is an adjective that\u2019s thrown around often, but there\u2019s value in the word. It communicates (or is meant to communicate) that which has an organic, authentic and emotionally-based character. And damn if Calling Cadence\u2019s self-titled debut isn\u2019t among the soulful-est albums I\u2019ve heard in recent times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the appealing qualities of what we might call 1970s FM rock was its ecelcdticism. Artists could borrow freely from country, blues, even soul or jazz and fold those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,62,65],"tags":[4808],"class_list":["post-22819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-calling-cadence","cat-39-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22821,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819\/revisions\/22821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}