Songs You May Have Missed #802

The Empty Pockets: “Privatize the Profits” (2022)

“Musicians’ musicians” the Empty Pockets have toured or performed as backing band for Al Stewart, Gary Wright, Richie Furay and Kenny Loggins among others.

But the Chicago band have topped the U.S. Billboard Blues chart twice in their own right, including with 2022’s Outside Spectrum.

The sound here is relatively stripped down, effects-free, and reliant on virtuosic performance, which the Pockets can cetrtainly deliver.

In the live performance below, they unassumingly demonstrate the commonality the song’s chord sequence shares with other better-known songs.

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