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Makin
Waves
by Bob Makin
Record Roundup with Arlan Feiles,
Chill Smith, and Matthew Whitaker
With the progressive passion
of Woody Guthrie, flashes of the
poetry of Bob Dylan, the Ameri-
cana grit of Bruce Springsteen, the
singer-songwriter-instrumentalist
sensibility of Jackson Browne, and
the Ray Charles-inspired blue-
eyed soul of Van Morrison, Jersey
Shore-based, Los Angeles-bred
Arlan Feiles has established him-
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self as a respected artist world-
wide with the release of five in-
dependent albums. But his sixth,
“What Kind of World?,” is his best
because he seems even more in-
spired with the recent birth of his
first son to confront society’s ills
with an eclectic palate of roots mu-
sic, including gospel, soul, blues,
folk and country. His view of the
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