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MIAMI SOUND MACHINE

IF YOUR LOCAL deli is hosting a jam, you might consider going. In Fernando Perdomo’s case, he’d just moved to L.A. from Miami and become a regular at the Kibbitz Room sessions at Canter’s Deli. As he was channeling Neil Young one night during a spirited take on “Mr. Soul,” Andrew Slater, director of the 2018 music documentary Echo in the Canyon, sat in the audience.

“He came up to me and asked me to play on the soundtrack,” Perdomo says. “I’m on a track with Eric Clapton, two with Neil Young, and I got to be in the movie and play with Brian Wilson. was a dream come true, and everybody in the backing

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