{"id":1686,"date":"2010-07-25T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2010-07-26T18:53:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T18:53:51","slug":"the-spirit-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-07\/the-spirit-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturdays are for the spirit and the spirited, and on Saturday the Delta Spirit boys came a ghostin’ at Velvet Jones. \u00a0 Sold out and packed with a rabid young crowd, the Velvet and Club Mercy played perfect hosts to this crowd-pleasing band originally from San Diego and now residing in Long Beach. \u00a0 The last show of a 40-night tour before heading off to Europe in September, the band threw in some new, some old, some covers and some rarities, and delivered on all fronts.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen or heard them, they are a fervent, soulful group, and particularly live.\u00a0 Leader Matt Vazquez (no not the professional baseball pitcher from Santa Barbara) is a talented vocalist who can impressively hit all the notes live.\u00a0 He is backed by a great four to eight piece band that swells to at least eight (we lost count actually) onstage at times for added pounding, percussive drive.\u00a0\u00a0 Delta Spirit aren’t breaking any new musical barriers, but they cover the waterfront stylistically with flourish on their instruments and with stylish vocalistics.\u00a0 On the crowd-pleasing anthems they sound like an indie-Springsteen (note: Club Mercy brings the similarly-veined-in-that-regard band, Hold Steady, to Velvet Jones on Aug. 27th).\u00a0 At other times they play the blues belters (on a Louie Armstrong cover for example), and at others the plaintive Americana soulsters.\u00a0 The band knows and represents well their influences, and frequently whips up the crowd into a clapping, singalong fervor.\u00a0 And for good measure, they threw in a spirited cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here <\/em>(with the young crowd bizarrely bellowing along to every word–is there a Pink Floyd resurgence we don’t know about?).<\/em> They left it on the stage and the crowd left satiated.\u00a0 Check ’em out next time.<\/p>\n

In case you missed them, get ready for their next visit by checking out the band below.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wE1LalEvgE4&feature=related<\/p>\n