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    Aug 26, 2020 3 minutes

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    JD SIMO

    JD SIMO

    Crows Feet Records

    Imagine Motown meets Woodstock, with large dashes of blues and you get JD Simo, a Chicago born, Nashville-based singer and guitarist. This is his second album and the 10 tracks are corkers; vibrant soul groovers sit next to psychedelic rock workouts with melodic earworms aplenty. JD can riff, wail and wah wah with skill, taste and bravado, channelling Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, Jimmy Nolan and numerous other iconic six-stringers with verve. Opener, The Movement dips into Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield territory due to JD’s falsetto voice and a

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