Johnny Neel and the Criminal Element:
Volume 2

By: Dennis Cook Twistin' one and smokin' it down, skinny dippin' in a lake and generally driving their fingers into fine, earthy stuff, Johnny Neel and the Criminal Element tap into The Mothers of Invention, Dumpstaphunk and some of Neel's earlier involvements like Blue Floyd and the Allman Brothers. Clever but streetwise, the Criminal Element - Neel (keyboards, vocals), Randy Boen (guitar, vocals), Curt Redding (drums, vocals) and Russell Wright (bass) - flow with bar band immediacy fueled...

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