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Like so many good things in life, Blue Sunshine Soul is the product of a happy accident.The Salt Lake City band started as a prolonged jam session: A few friends hanging around, covering each other’s spontaneously composed songs. It was a sweet, introspective musical release from the stresses of daily life and the demands of other bands, an opportunity to harmonize, generate alternately mournful and playful guitar hooks, and pepper far-away ballads—which sound as if they were composed in a faraway decade—with tambourine and organ.Eventually, the jam sessions expanded to include seven members who temporarily exchanged their given names for songwriting aliases.Blue Sunshine Soul’s sexy mix of blues, old-school country and early Bob Dylan-era folk rock is immensely satisfying and their gigs are in high demand, though catching them onstage is a rarity.But while BSS has a decidedly vintage sound, they are influenced by plenty of contemporary bands, namely neo-psych rockers San Francisco-based Warlocks and Austin-based Black Angels.It’s been a long, if not strange, trip in the three years between BSS forming and releasing their August 2008 debut All the World at Once.“We Are Doneâ€: This is the track that initially made me fall for Blue Sunshine Soul. I love the rolling, repetitive guitar riff and the “Hey!†back up vocals. This vintage-sounding rock gem is poppy enough to be radio-friendly, yet still imbued with plenty of rough basement charm.“Darkest Hourâ€: The mournful guitar and dual male/female vocals on this track add up to supreme loveliness. This song is the perfect soundtrack to an overcast day or dusky drive through the desert. The simple, timeless lyrics give it universal appeal. A downcast song of love and longing that resonates long after it ends. -Jenny Poplar