Here’s a cool review from our good friend Iman Lababedi of rocknycliveandrecorded.com on the latest smash from Rockford.  Those Rockford Boys are puttin’ out the hottest files since Big Jim Rockford stepped on up to his new position 3 months ago today, managing some “huge files” in the “upper end” of town. Many thanks Iman!  YOU ROCK NYC(Live and Recorded)!   –  Jack

ROCKFORD’S “I TRIED” REVIEWED…WRITTEN BY IMAN LABABEDI

All the way from Long Beach, California, my buddy and rock nyc writer Edward Huerta plays drums for this classic rock band with a lotta lotta punch and a way with a sound that straddles somewhere between a classicists coolness and a guitarists ambitions,  and never more so than on the sterling guitar break on their latest song guitarist and lead singer  Jeff Beal’s “I Tried”.

I asked Edward to write something about the band for me and this is what he sent: “Jeff Beals guitar/vox/..Jon Melkerson lead guitar/vox..John Kelly bass..Scott Dibble keyboards/vox..Ed Huerta drums/vox…we all write songs..ex members of Eggplant/OO Soul/The Lazy Cowgirls…been together about 2 years..record in the back of a pawn shop with engineering by Martin Beal..all of us went to the same high school, Westminster(Editor’s note: My Old School), in CA..all of us surf still except me..we have