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Eric Tessmer’s original blues-rock fairly stings from years of gigging at Antone’s, and that mojo resonates in every note of Green Diamond. There are plenty of ZZ Top-style crunchers (“Skin the Rabbit”) and Allman-like joys (“Taildragger”), but Tessmer pulls a few aces from his sleeve with pedal-to-the-metal rock (“Buttons & Threads”) and the chunky instrumental title track played out in three parts.
This article appears in November 19 • 2010.
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