Zac Harman & The Drive

Live

Independent

Zac Harmon is from Jackson, Mississippi, where he grew up in a musical family. His father, a pharmacist, played harmonica while tending to the needs of local musicians, including Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Albert King, Ike & Tina Turner, and Little Milton. Young Zac began his professional career as a guitarist, playing with Sam Myers, Dorothy Moore, and Z.Z. Hill.

At the age of 21, he moved to Los Angeles and found work as a studio musician, songwriter, and producer. As a producer, he worked with the reggae band “Black Uhuru,” resulting in a 1994 Grammy nomination.

After composing blues for a movie score, Harmon recorded his first blues album, “Live at Babe & Ricky’s Inn,” introducing himself as a torchbearer for future generations. Zac Harmon and the Mid-South Revue took first place in the band competition at the 2004 International Blues Challenge. In 2005, Harmon released “The Blues According To Zacariah” and won the Blues Music Award for “Best New Artist Debut.” As an actor, Harmon starred in the 2010 independent feature film “Black and Blue.”

He followed with 2016’s “Right Man Right Now” on Blind Pig Records; 2019’s “Mississippi BarBQ” on Catfood Records; and 2021’s “Long As I Got My Guitar,” which won another Blues Music Award as 2022’s “Soul Blues Album of the Year.” Zac Harmon & The Drive “Live” is his ninth album overall.

The Drive includes Harmon on guitar and vocals; Kingston “Soul Fingers” Livingston on guitar and vocals; Corey “Brown Coy” Lacy on keyboards and vocals; Nate “The Bass” Robinson on bass; and Gino “LockJohnson” Inglehart on drums and vocals. Guest musicians include Jabari Johnson on guitar and vocals; Bobby Sparks on keyboards; Tommye Young-West on vocals; and Lio Saenz, Jr. on horns. All of the songs have been previously recorded, making the album a retrospective as well.

The album opens with “NTRO,” written by Robinson and Lacy, an atmospheric instrumental. On the funky “Hump In Your Back,” written by Harmon, he groans, “Doctor said when I came into this world, come with me, little girl, said I got what you need, what’s that hump in your back, c’mon baby, show me what’s that hump in your back…I was born in Jackson, when I move I see your reaction, c’mon babe, show me what’s you got, what’s that hump in your back.”

“Blue Pill Thrill” is a co-write with Harmon and John Hahn, as Harmon chimes, “I thought that you were gone, things weren’t working like they should, so we went to the doctor to see what could be done, he gave me a little blue pill, a blue pill thrill.”

On “Feet Back On The Ground,” Harmon moans, “Girl I’ve been trippin’, got no place to go, been running around town, like a mad so and so, but I’m so glad I got you ’round, bring my feet back on the ground.”

“40 Days,” also written by Harmon, features him in a call-and-response as he chants, “40 days, 40 nights, you know just before 40 days, there’s just 40 days of love-a-love, there’s 40 nights.”

On “Don’t Let The Devil Ride,” a gospel song first recorded by The Rev. Oris Mays and released in 1968, Harmon cries out, “Don’t Let that devil ride, I said don’t let that devil ride, ’cause if you let him ride, soon you’ll be tried, ’cause if you let him in, you’ll lose your friends,” sung as a duet with Tommye Young-West.

“Boogie Down,” another Harmon original, features some great piano work as he shouts, “c’mon down to Mississippi, Jackson town, goin’ down to Mississippi to boogie down, goin’ down to Mississippi so I can bring my Sunny down.”

On “Little Blue Bird,” written by Isaac Hayes, Booker T. Jones, and David Porter and first recorded by Johnnie Taylor in 1968, Harmon chirps, “I saw a little blue bird, and he sang for me, why you been quiet so long, I wish you’d land in my tree, every time you walk by me babe, I just want to clip your wings.”

“Mississippi Bar B Q,” co-written by Harmon and Bob Trenchard in 2019, finds Harmon belting, “the party is on and the coast is clear, put on the music, play me some blues, we’re gonna have a Mississippi BarBQ, got chicken and ribs on the grill.”

On the closer, “Slide,” written by Harmon, Inglehart, Derrick Procell, Terry Abrahamson, and Christopher Troy, Harmon croons, “baby girl give me a kiss and let it slide, gonna make you mine, baby let it slide, too much money, too much time, so baby let it slide, gonna make you mine.”

Blending deep blues roots with elements of soul and Southern groove, Zac Harmon & The Drive “Live” features powerful renditions of fan favorites along with standout moments highlighting the band’s musicianship and Harmon’s commanding presence.

Richard Ludmerer

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