Singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer Rusty Zinn takes his music to a new level with his latest CD, ReggaeBlue. The sounds displayed on this set are a musical marriage of reggae and soul, seasoned throughout with the blues. Zinn doesn’t just merely perform genres and styles, he sings and plays from the heart, sharing his intense passion for music, while displaying a wide range as a vocalist and songwriter.
“Rusty Zinn is a one-man eclectic circus, taking us on a wild ride through his various passions and proving good music is its own category. He seems to have been everywhere, absorbed everything, and made it his own,” says Rogers Steffens, founding editor of The Beat.
Gaining initial acclaim as a blues guitarist, and later as a singer/songwriter, Zinn’s multi-faceted talents are continually evolving. This evolution created the unique melding of soul and reggae in ReggaeBlue. Zinn wrote 11 of the 12 songs on the CD, which takes the listener on a musical journey filled with love, hope, peace and optimism guaranteed to soothe one’s soul. “I love his voice. His writing is great. He talks about what we talked about,” said Fully Fullwood, founding member of the popular 70’s reggae band, Soul Syndicate. Zinn has also gained respect from rhythm guitarist Tony Chin, another Soul Syndicate member, who lends his talents on six of the ReggaeBlue tracks.
Zinn touches on musical styles with an approach uniquely his own. Some of the musical ingredients include roots reggae (My God, The World Is In Rewind), lovers rock (She Comes From Nothing), singer/songwriter meets hip hop (Everytime I See A Rainbow), and classic soul (Take Your Time, A Song Of My Own).