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After more than 20 studio albums, more than a dozen live albums and numerous compilations, not to mention countless, and legendary, live performances around the world, NRBQ released a new studio album, Brass Tacks, in 2014. Recorded with Terry Adams on keyboards and vocals, Scott Ligon on guitar and vocals, Conrad Choucroun on drums (Ligon and Choucroun have been playing with Adams for seven years) and Casey McDonough (who joined the Q in 2012) on bass and vocals, Brass Tacks is brimming with swinging rhythms, sweet vocals, and sparkling sound. The dozen new tunes, served up in the unique Q mix of pop, rock, jazz, country, and more -- "It's just NRBQ music," says Adams. Credits: Terry Adams (piano, clavinet, harmonica ['I'd Like to Know'], vocals); Scott Ligon (guitar, banjo, vocals); Casey McDonough (bass, vocals); Conrad Choucroun (drums with Joe Camarillo, drums ['Greetings from Delaware' & 'I'm Not Here']); Jimmy Gordon (harmonica, ['This Flat Tire']). Brass Tacks was recorded and mixed by Norm DeMoura at Harmonium Studio. On tour, Conrad Choucroun is occasionally replaced by Bobby Lloyd Hicks on drums (The Skeletons, Dave Alvin, Jonathan Richman, Steve Forbert).
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"The wildly eclectic New Rhythm & Blues Quintet, better known to its worldwide legion of adoring fans as NRBQ (or just the Q!), is the only band on the planet that can play rockabilly, bar-band blooze, Beatles sound-alikes and Sun Ra-style free jazz in the same set and remain standing. By the time keyboardist Terry Adams, vocalist Frank Gadler, bassist Joey Spampinato, drummer Tom Staley and fabulous new guitarist Al Anderson released Scraps, their wonderful second album in 1972, they had relocated from Florida to New Jersey, and, like their name says, they were actually a quintet for the only time in their career. From the infectious 'Howard Johnston's Got His Ho-Jo Working' to the lovably understated 'Magnet,' Scraps is loaded with NRBQ classics that lived up to the eye-popping press garnered by their self-titled 1969 debut."
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"The Q immediately followed Scraps with 1973's equally terrific Workshop. Gadler had departed, reducing the quintet to its customary foursome (natch!), but the band never missed a beat with an album that featured the hypnotically chugging 'Come On If You're Coming,' the mouth-watering 'RC Cola and a Moon Pie' and the ultra-prophetic 'Get That Gasoline Blues.'"
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