Review: Zac Harmon – Floreada’s Boy
Zac Harmon – Floreada’s Boy
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital / Label: Catfood Records
Release: 2024
Text: Tom Wouters
Texas-based blues singer/guitarist Zac Harmon releases ‘Floreada’s Boy’ (named after his mother’s first name) as his third album for Catfood Records.
The album is a reflection of playing the blues for 50 years from the juke joints of Mississippi to stages all over the world. “Not bad for an old country boy”, Harmon himself thinks.
Harmon’s style is the soul blues à la Robert Cray, as can be heard in songs like Fake News, Sugarman (featuring the Texas Horns), I’ll Never Forget and Stop The Killing with beautiful guitar support from the English session guitarist Caleb Quaye (ex- Elton John and ex- Hall & Oates).
Harmon is accompanied by his very competent band The Drive (Corey Lacy, keyboards, Nate Robinson, bass, Kingston Livingston, guitar and Gino Iglehart, drums).
Furthermore, Harmon makes a few successful excursions into funk, such as in the Prince-like Let It Slide and Stress. Big Dog Blues is slow big band blues and in Bobby Womack’s soul ballad That’s The Way I Feel About Cha Harmon vocally enters into a beautiful duet with singer Sue Ann Carwell.
Zac Harmon has delivered a beautiful and varied soul blues album with ‘Floreada’s Boy.’
Tracks:
01. Babe and Ricky’s Inn
02. Fake News
03. Glass Ceiling
04. Let It Slide
05. That’s The Way I Feel About Cha
06. Stress
07. Sugarman
08. Big Dog Blues
09. Lonely Rider
10. Never Have A Better Night
11. I’ll Never Forget
12. Stop the Killing
Website: https://zacharmon.com/home