Album Review - Tony Furtado and the American Gypsies - Live Gypsy By John Metzger

There are so many ways that Live Gypsy could have gone wrong, but Tony Furtado deftly avoided all of the pitfalls that lay before him. Instead of becoming an endless series of soulless solos, a dry stab at virtuoso bluegrbutt, a scattered attempt at enlightened eclecticism, a bland display of jazz-fusion, or a coerced shot at pleasing the jam band crowd, Furtado resists being bound by the chains that typically have restricted those traversing similar genre-bending paths.

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