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Josh Charles Perfectly Executes Hendrix Covers On New Album

By Robert posted November 20, 2010 at 08:00

Covering someone like Jimi Hendrix isn’t just hard, it’s next to impossible. The average dude can’t just pick up a guitar and start picking away at “Machine Gun” like it was a Nirvana riff. The level of skill and passion in any Hendrix riff is prevalent at all times, and if someone in the local music shop is ripping a killer version of “Cross Town Traffic” out, chances are they are incredibly talented. Josh Charles, the piano virtuoso of “Healing Time” and “Love, Work and Money” fame is one of those guys in the music shop and on his new E.P. “Trippin’ the Keys,” Charles attempts to channel his own inner Hendrix by covering four of the legend’s hits. Continue...
Underdog Josh Charles Highlights New Orleans JazzFest

By Robert posted May 05, 2010 at 08:00

Josh Charles is a complicated person. Lost between the flux of nice guy singer-songwriter and rabid piano fondler, it’s hard to know exactly where someone’s music can lead the person playing it when the songs themselves are beautifully sociopathic. Plainly put, no matter if you’re into technical playing or soulful brooding, both are covered and executed with exacting skill. His music isn’t Jazz and it’s not blues, I don’t know if people still apply the term “Boogie Woogie” in the later thousands or whatever you want to classify the time frame we live in but, it’s honest and that’s what counts in a world knee deep in garbage music flooding pop radio by the minute. Continue...