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Wherefore our Roots of Confusion Seeds of Joy? It's like asking who has seen the wind: mindblowing, but pointless. Major Stars light the psychedelic guitar rock universe one tightly arranged song at a time, making space for six-string beams to cross their charted course.

Making Endless Boogie sound like Steely Dan, Blues Ambush will fulfill pretty much all of your needs for blown-out choogle and deep zone-outs. Consisting of guitarist Ken Brenninger (Storks, Fully Glazed, Philadelphia Record Exchange), bassist Jesse Sheppard (Elkhorn), and drummer Dave Siebert (Jackie O Motherfucker).

I knew Russ Waterhouse from the project Blues Control, and Mary from the Donna Parker moniker. They performed at Tubby’s opening for Oneida Pre-pandemic and it was a mind melter. Pumped to have them back.

Here’s a recent excerpt from Dusted… Staubitz and more recently Waterhouse have been a dynamic force in the vibrant New England improvisation scene for a while now, constantly performing, organizing shows, building on long-running collaborations and seeking out new ones. And then the pandemic hit, forcing them to hunker down and reassess their music. Waterhouse thinks back on how that impacted their working together. “Being isolated together gave us time to talk about ideas and especially early in the pandemic, time to work on them. I am grateful for that. The pandemic accelerated our development as a creative unit. We moved in together only a few months before the pandemic started. We hadn’t even been dating for a year. The pandemic forced us to grow and learn about each other very quickly.” Staubitz adds, “We’ve both been doing this separately for a long time, set in our ways — luckily, our ways balance each other. COVID just gave us time and space to work more, to the point where we’d take breaks between projects to ‘be a couple’ until we got bored with that and got back to work. If anything, having that space and time solidified our Working Couple dynamic.”