A TEXAS TORNADO IN TINSELTOWN
called “Take Me Down Easy,” off of Marc Benno and the Nightcrawlers’ 1973 opus, , very possibly the best blues-rock album of the early 1970s you’ve never heard. Like every track on the album, it features heavyweight singer/guitarist Benno and his band — including noted drummer/singer Doyle Bramhall — knocking out some of the most fluid and sophisticated blues-rock this side of the Allman Brothers and Leon Russell. Indeed, Russell is. (Never released by A&M, Benno’s was finally issued on his own Texasize imprint in 2006.)
