Giving it Up for the California Guitar Trio

By Sean Murphy August 4, 2009 #California Guitar Trio, #Jake Shimabukuro, #Jon Anderson, #Outlaws, #pink floyd, #The Doors, #Yes

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I know I’d be ecstatically grateful if, having never heard of these guys, someone turned me on to them. So in advance: you’re welcome.

Here is a trio of progressive rock bliss from the California Guitar Trio.

Performing Pink Floyd’s seemingly uncoverable “Echoes”:

An almost too-good-to-be-true cover of the ultimate prog-rock eargasm, “Heart of the Sunrise”, featuring not only bass god Tony Levin but the singer of the original song, Jon Anderson:

And then, when you are thinking: Well, that is damn clever and who knew they could craft all-acoustic covers so convincingly, they kick up the creativity a notch and combine two old classic rock chestnuts (apologies for the most gratuitous alliteration since Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Bells”, and speaking of bells, this is pretty tubular):

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