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So here's a two part monster.

First, Little Feat, founded by ex-Mother of Invention Lowell George. On their debut they created the country rock standard 'Willin'' but the real monster was the album Dixie Chicken which many considered the American answer to the Stones Exile On Main Street for it's effortless melding of all southern music styles and chronicling of countercultural exhaustion. Gems like 'Dixie Chicken,' 'Fat Man In The Bathtub,' and 'Roll Um Easy,' still hold up today. Sadly, Lowell succumbed to the addictions that dogged him throughout his life.

Second, my man Dion. The streetcorner bard of the Bronx who gave us 'The Wanderer,' and 'Teenager In Love.' Later on in life, he addressed a subject rarely tackled in rock-aging. 'I Used To Be A Brooklyn Dodger' and 'King Of The New York Streets,' see the world through the eyes of an aging swaggerer like nobody else.

Third, the late salsa master Ray Barretto with the original 'Deeper Shade Of Soul,' just because.