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Artist: John McCormack

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Album Title: Peace Of Mind
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When unconventional sax meets progressive rock, you have a new genre.

Peace Of Mind, John McCormack’s first solo album, meshes soulful sax, raw piano and synths, all backed by a powerful progressive rock rhythm section.
Who knew a sax should do all that?

This independent album, self-released on January 7, 2006, is already a progressive rock smash. The album’s second track, the synth
guitar-driven Without A Doubt, instantly climbed to Number One on the overall
play-charts of the internet station Jamwave.com on January 21, 2006, having already reached Number One in the Rock genre on January 17, 2006, with four tracks
in the Top Ten.

From the haunting Go Ahead And Rain to the dreamy It's Good To Be Home For Christmas, progressive rock explodes with Peace Of Mind.

Nothing is impossible.

For more information, kindly visit www.johnmccormack.net. Kindly contact
John at jmacksax@hotmail.com

Biography

For over 28 years, John McCormack has played his raucous guitar-style sax throughout the Midwest and New York. John McCormack's influences are quite varied for a horn player, including Jimi Hendrix, Rush, Bob Marley, Santana, The Allmans, and of course, Charlie Parker.

While based in St. Louis, John played drums and toured with Lost Idaho and played sax with I Don't Know, Green Eggs and Spam and Just Add Water, which were all mainstays on the St. Louis club circuit. Once back in New York City, John was a founding member of Souled Out, one of New York's top R&B/Soul bands and still rockin' well into its second decade. John currently plays with Souled Out and Coolfish in the New York metro area.

John's first album, Peace of Mind, brings sax, piano and synths to progressive rock, combining all of those influences and life
experiences.

You can catch John with Souled Out and Coolfish in the New York metro area by visiting www.johnmccormack.net.

Peace of Mind: Album Notes

Peace of Mind features eight songs written, performed, recorded and mixed by John McCormack .

Go Ahead And Rain represents an exuberance of life without care. If you love, nothing else matters, so Go Ahead And Rain!

Without A Doubt was written with all of John's love for his wife Stacy.
This is a pure rock jam with guitar lead.

Out of My Winter demonstrates what can happen if you forget your troubles and know that it's better to let go of things you can't change.

Booth Street (Forever You) is a serene song most ideally heard on a long winding drive.

I Know What You Know. When you love someone but are too afraid to let it show, you can find peace knowing the other loves you back. The sax is raw with emotion and has been described as "vintage John."

Danger Damage Almost Over and It's Good To Be Home For Christmas were written in December 1989 during John's last full semester in college in St. Louis. Despite a sprained ankle, crutches, half a foot of snow and finals and papers due, John found the time to pull some all nighters and do these first two ventures into the realm of synths and doing his own mixdowns.

Peace of Mind, the track, is at the same time a dark and broody work with "peace" found in the joyful Spanish guitar. This was the transition song gapping John's old and new, and inspired the idea to do the album itself,
thus deserving the album title.

The album cover design is John's Happy Cat, which is the only thing John can draw (well not really, despite drawing it since he was a kid). It was the symbol for John's Happy Cat Productions when promoting his bands I Don't
Know and others in St. Louis. The inset photos are the two sides of one very happy cat, Benny, sometimes calm and sometimes crazy. John’s wife Stacy created the album artwork under John's close (too close!) supervision.

Nothing is impossible.

1. Go Ahead and Rain 5. I Know What You Know

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Reviews:

Great music!

Reviewer: Johnny Chung

This cd look great it has a twist to the cover, i think it will do very well!

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Smooth and delightful!

Reviewer: Valerie Lewis

I really enjoyed the unique sound of John McCormack. His music is the perfect antidote to stressful day and the ideal complement to a romantic evening.
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Like Great Sax

Reviewer: Kevin C (click for website)

His CD is awesome! He figured out how you cross Parker with Hendrixx! Keep it comin'
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Great Stuff!

Reviewer: J. Bernbach

This album is fabulous. It's hard to pin it down to a genre, but it's relaxing and intense at the same time. The sax playing is outstanding. I love to listen to it on my iPod when I'm riding to and from work. Please post any information of other stuff by John or similar artists. Highly recommended!
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Reviewer: Terry Pfaff

Very Good I like the sound. Where I live our radio station is WCOW Cow Country. But I am not into country western but like oldies from 50's, 60's, 70's. This music is new to me and sounds very refreshing....
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Liked it...great instrumentals.

Reviewer: Rick B.

Have always been a Rush and Police fan so the music brought back fond memories. I really enjoyed Go Ahead and Rain as well as It's Good to Be Home For Christmas. I liked the way he mixed the Sax with the Piano, the Guitar work was also very good.I highly recommend Peace Of Mind.
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This is much more than good music, this is art

Reviewer: paperboy

This is much more than good music... this is art at its finest. There are no labels that apply as this is just great music from a great music maker. The guy takes off from a solid background on modern jazz improvisation and keeps telling the story with an amazing freshness and ability. There no words that can explain music at its best. I'll just keep listening to the CD, and just let this music take me through the most beautiful places of the imagination. Good job, John. Keep doing it. I'm sure we will hear even greater things from you.
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outstanding

Reviewer: Mark (click for website)

I was very impressed by his music and looking foward to buying and hearing more of his music.
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relaxing

Reviewer: paul

peace of mind a awesome listen to put you into that relaxed state of mind after a long day at office and to reenergize yourself for a night out
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Very intriguing, hard to stop listening!

Reviewer: Christina LaBelle

I'm not sure how I would classify this genre, perhaps rock, progressive jazz, easy listening, or a combination of different genres. One thing is for sure, the sound is relaxing and soothing. I have been waiting for something like this!
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Great fabulous

Reviewer: brian starr

needs more SAX
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Very nice! I liked it!

Reviewer: Dave Washington

Great sound! The few songs I heard kicked ASS!!! Good Luck! By-the-way...we have a band here in OKC also called "Souled Out".
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i liked it. it was nice to listen to.

Reviewer: jackie

i real liked it. my fav was the go ahead and rain. the rest of the songs were good also.
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Enjoyable!

Reviewer: Stusdaman

Peace of Mind is a great mix of traditional music and the sax sounds flow through extremely well. This is a great cd to just throw on in the background at a party.
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John is talented saxaphone player and gifted musician

Reviewer: Lisa Hechler

John is a true musician. His music gradually unfolds with its jazzy textures and melodic undertones as it keeps the listener captivated until the end. Not only does his album showcase his ability as a talented saxaphone player but as a gifted musician as well. His album is truly a great piece of work.
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one word--outstanding

Reviewer: ed myers

soft----great string movement,interesting use of high/low cords
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this album was very refreshing

Reviewer: michael cross

this album was very refreshing and new i really enjoyed it very much. I would recommend to anyone
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Good distinct sound...

Reviewer: Ian (ttuoilman)

While listening to the samples on his website I found myself yearning a martini and a cigar. It is a different style of music than I usually listen to, but it has a very catchy sound and is something I could see myself listening to...next time though it will be with a cigar and a martini.
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Reviewer: Kevin

The best jazz music I've heard in quite some time....
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Melodic and masterly crafted, simply smile-worthy!

Reviewer: Kevin Mattei

Wow. This album is amazing. This music has more sheer, raw power behind it than just about anything I have heard in a while. Many of the tracks on this album are absolutely brilliant and infectious. After giving this a listen, I now know what the cat on the album cover is so happy!
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Soothing and mellow

Reviewer: Robin Black

This cd was very soothing and relaxing. I really enjoyed it and the name of the cd is perfect.
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This sounds like it should be from an adventure movie sound track

Reviewer: Angela Nache

This CD sounds like it should be from an adventure movie sound track. It grabs you from the begining and keeps you listening till the end to see how the adventure ends up! It's well worth the price of admission.
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relaxing, refreshing and enlightening

Reviewer: Aimana El-Bahtity

Peace of Mind was a very fitting title for the cd. It's the kind of sound that can be taken anywhere but not the style you can find everywhere. Every piece was refreshingly different from the next. It was like a fine written book...every read reveals something different. Thanks!!
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It's about time!

Reviewer: Dori Evans

I've been waiting for music like this to come around again - great playing, interesting arrangements and concepts ........and something not guaranteed to put the listener to sleep! This is exciting stuff!
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Awesome! Easy to listen to; not that annoying Kenny G stuff.

Reviewer: Phil Carollo

John's a great musician. His tunes are "feel-good" and easy to listen to. You gotta hear him live! He'll blow you away!

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