Rick Braun / Richard Elliot RNR 12/12/06 Benjamin Whishaw Smiled A5

Benjamin Whishaw Smiled A5

and elegantly executed it' still hard to believe after all these decades that a 15 year old ever played them: Stevie Ray Vaughan had nothing on Shuggie

Saxophonist and frequent collaborator Leland Whitty features on the track "Confessions

Drink & be Merry 4

and anyone who's spent time in the last decade's DIY circuit will recognize something undeniably West Coast in Alien Boy's sound: a sharpened

Rick Braun / Richard Elliot RNR 12/12/06 Benjamin Whishaw Smiled A5Personnel: Rick Braun (trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards, programming); Rick Braun; Richard Elliot (saxophone, tenor saxophone); Randy Jacobs, John Pondell (guitar); Ron Reinhardt (keyboards); Nate Phillips (bass guitar); Sergio Gonzales, Sergio Gonz? lez (drums); Jeff Lorber (guitar, keyboards); Chris Standring, Dwight Sills (guitar); Nick Lane (trombone); Gregg Karukas, Philippe Saisse, Rex Rideout (keyboards); Ricky Lawson (drums); Lenny Castro