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Full Show: Great American Taxi - Live In Longmont on July 28, 2017

Let's get one thing straight -- Great American Taxi is not a jam band.
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Let's get one thing straight -- Great American Taxi is not a jam band. It's not hard to understand how their brand of Americana has found an audience in that setting, and maybe improvise (quite well at times) while swapping solos on-stage, but there's no spacey jamming, nor is there the vague, there's-a-song-in-there-somewhere approach to composition too frequently taken by jam bands. Rather, Greate American Taxi is pretty much a straight-up, old-school country-rock outfit. Not only do they wear their Commander Cody, Grateful Dead and Flying Burrito Brothers influences on their sleeves, they regularly reference their forebears in the lyrics of their songs.

Bio from their website:

Chad Staehly / Keyboards, Vocals
Jim Lewin / Guitar, Vocals
Brian Adams / Bass, Vocals
Arthur Lee Land / Guitar, Banjo, Vocals
Will Trask / Drums


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 day’s 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...