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Full-length, ‘Dance Songs for Hard Times,’ produced by Vance Powell (four-time Grammy Award winner, veteran of Chris Stapleton and Jack White) spent two weeks at #1 and seven weeks in the Top 20 on the Billboard Blues Chart

Watch the new video for “Chain Reaction”

Premiering exclusively today is the album opener, “Ain’t Nobody Worryin’,” a slinky, funk-drenched cover of the Anthony Hamilton tune

‘Be The Love You Want’ out August 27 via Renew Records/BMG — produced by Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, Susan Tedeschi)

“Animation afforded an opportunity to manifest the imagery the song conjured in my head.”

“Heavy Shoes is a metaphor for something that is weighing you down. That feeling of every step being heavier than the last and not being able to carry the baggage any further. Heavy Shoes was the first song I had written for the album, and kind of a template we wanted to use for the rest of the record. Heavy, bluesy, straight ahead and honest.” – Chris Tapp

Today sees the premiere of the rootsy “Everywhere You’ve Been”

After the darkness of the past year, the track speaks to a shared longing for the sun to come out and shine once more

Geer’s dad was something of a “swashbuckler,” according to the songwriter. An Alabama idealist with mystic leanings, he marched with Martin Luther King Jr in the early ‘60s, and eventually made his way out to San Francisco embracing the emerging hippie consciousness, joining a commune in Oregon before eventually going on to study acupuncture and traditional medicine in China.

‘The Cause of It All’ hearkens back to historic pairings like Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Junior Wells & Buddy Guy.