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Great American Taxi, Matanuska Brewing Anchorage Alaska

Great American Taxi are a rock & roll classic, a timeless mixture of gutsy pop, calloused hand country, blue-eyed R&B, and bare-knuckle barroom chooglin with songs for the everyman and woman grinding out the working week and anxious to shuffle the days cares away. The inheritors of the good times-bad times mojo of Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Eagles, and Lowell George-era Little Feat, GAT are boogie rock champs with big beating hearts backed up by thousands of gigs and highway miles real music for real people living each day as best they can, dreaming about Friday nights and scoring a few breaks in this wicked world.

After some evolutionary changes, the core lineup now centers around Chad Staehly (keyboards, vocals), Jim Lewin (guitar, vocals), Brian Adams (bass, vocals) and newest member Arthur Lee Land (guitar, banjo, vocals) with guest drummer Duane Trucks (Hard Working Americans, Widespread Panic) joining them on the groups latest, strongest studio effort, Dr. Feelgood's Traveling Medicine Show, which was produced by Railroad Earths Tim Carbone. Since the departure of founding member Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon), the band has refined and expanded their vision of what Gram Parsons called Cosmic American Music, a deeply felt, gently groovy kind of Americana that one can down a pitcher of suds to while contemplating life, the universe, and everything.

If there is real intention and emotion behind the act of shaping sound, then real life is injected into the sounds, resulting in music and songs that can be embraced by the listener into a real experience that allows them to relate on an emotional level, says Staehly.

I love the improvisational conversation, adds Lee Land. Taxis interpretive approach makes each experience unique and the magic that occurs within the three-part alchemy of the music, the band, and the audience is a major turn on.

It's a community thing and a form of creative expression, says Lewin. I like how music touches the past and winds a narrow path into the future. On a good night it can reveal hidden truths, psychic energy, and an occasional glimpse of spirit. And, I like the free beer.