A Los Angeles band that blended jazz, rock, and funk with a breakthrough single called "Bebop and Rocksteady."
If you want to hear what they were about, start with "Bebop and Rocksteady" for the early energy, then maybe "I'll Be Lost" for how they kept it going.
Days Away mattered because they brought a real mix of sounds to the late '90s LA scene, jazz, rock, funk, even some soul and reggae later on. Their single "Bebop and Rocksteady" was the one that broke through, and they worked with players like Kamasi Washington and Thundercat. Songs like "I'll Be Lost" and "Safe Games" show how they kept that blend going across their albums.
They formed in Los Angeles in the late 1990s with Adam Thomas on vocals and guitar, Chris Johnson on bass, and Greg Smith on drums. They put out albums like "Echoes of the Past" in 2003, "Beyond the Horizon" in 2007, and "The Phoenix Rises" in 2015, with a brief hiatus somewhere in there. The sound shifted a bit over time, picking up more soul, reggae, and psychedelic rock elements.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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