It’s a comfortable concept indeed, a soothing blanket of sound right to the epic closer Real, with some chiming guitars and harmonies and a cool chorus of Na-na-na’s..

What a welcome return.

Here’s the link to Jason Bean’s SoundCloud page.

Jason Bean performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at Basta’s Restaurant, 7 Syracuse St., Baldwinsville, N.Y. He’ll be joined by his brother Christopher and Doug Moncrief.

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Eddie Z
Song Miner

Eddie Zacholl is a musical man about town in Central New York, performing with the groove rock jams of The Z-Bones and the string Americana of The Easy Ramblers.

Not everything that comes into his fertile mind, though, fits into those spacious formats, Eddie Z says.

“So I decided to get some use out of my home studio and create a stripped-down folky project called Song Miner, The idea was to capture an organic version of the song sketches early in the writing process and let the listener fill in the blanks, much like the folk singer-songwriters did in the early ’60s. This turned out to be an enjoyable experience …”

For the listener, indeed.

Eddie Z’s 11 original songs are a blast.

He starts with Straight Shooter,, with Grandpa BS’ing to guitar and fiddle and winds his way to San Francisco, a sprawling tale with harmonica that hits the mountains and bluegrass and High Lonesome and a misty morning on its way to a nice surprise ending, to Walking Through a Dream,, a sweet closer and wonders about time and life.

There’s no going back and no seeing what’s ahead.

Eddie Z is comfortable in the moment, playing his guitar, producing, accepting congas help from Tom Finn and fiddle and vocals support from Brendan Gosson and one writing split, on the cool Waters Run Deep with friend and band mate Scott Ebner.

Great mining here.

Here’s the link to The Z-Bones’ Reverb Nation page.

Eddie Z performs as part of part of the Acoustic Guitar Project at 8 p.m. today at Jazz Central, 441 E. Washington St. Syracuse, N.Y., with Kim Monroe and Chris Eves, Joe Driscoll and Donna Dennihy. Tickets are $12.