CONTINENTAL DRIFTERS - White Noise & Lightning: The Best Of Continental Drifters - CD [SEP 13]

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Born in Los Angeles in the early 1990s via a residency of week after week jam sessions at a dive club called Raji’s - then relocating to New Orleans - the band’s trajectory lasted about a decade and ended when Hurricane Katrina demolished their homes and the band members scattered. Key members included Vicki Peterson (Bangles), Susan Cowsill (The Cowsills), Peter Holsapple (The dBs, R.E.M.), and many more - including the only member who has been with them from the beginning, Mark Walton (Giant Sand, The Dream Syndicate). However, there were also several singer/songwriters (Carlo Nuccio, Gary Eaton, Ray Ganucheau) without an impressive pedigree that shine as brightly as their slightly more 2 famous bandmates.

The best possible comparison that we can make is that the Continental Drifters had a similar vibe to the classic roots combo Delaney and Bonnie and Friends - more of a “collective’ than a band—in which there were several distinctly original lead singers, blistering sidemen instrumentalists and an inspiring blend of both original and seminal cover songs with a southern fried blue-eyed soul approach that couldn’t be beat.

Tracklist:

1. The Rain Song
2. Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway
3. Dallas
4. Mezzanine
5. Invisible Boyfriend
6. Match Made In Heaven
7. The Mississippi
8. Get Over It
9. Mixed Messages
10. Don't Do What I Did
11. Tomorrow's Gonna Be
12. Na Na
13. Peaceful Waking
14. Drifters
15. Who We Are, Where We Live (Live at the Court Tavern)