He played snippets of song ideas for the band on his iPhone, and then they would lay down a track in one or two takes. Harvey and the band had not met previously, nor had they rehearsed. Read more about Harvey Mandel via Aquarium Drunkard." Snake Pit marks a spirited return in a career that now spans six decades - all the more intense and poignant given Harvey's recent battle with cancer. The album contains six new original compositions by Mandel and two revisited songs : "Baby Batter" from his 1971 Janus LP of the same name, and "Before Six" by Larry Frazier, which appears on his first album,Cristo Redentor. Minimal overdubs with strings and percussion were added, but mostly what you hear is what happened spontaneously in the studio. Hard to believe when you hear the album, but that's exactly how it went down. Harvey teamed with fellow Chicago-based musicians Ben Boye (keys), Ryan Jewell (drums), Brian Sulpizio (guitar), and Anton Hatwich (bass), who have all played with singer/songwriter Ryley Walker.
Harvey's fifteenth studio LP and his first widely distributed album in 20 years, Snake Pit was recorded in two days at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. Known for his "tapping" technique and sinewy, sustain-driven phrasing (thus his nickname, "The Snake"), Mandel's solo albums such as Cristo Redentor, Baby Batter and Righteous have been sampled and drooled over by guitar geeks, DJ's, and fans of funky, soulful, otherworldly composition. He played on numerous John Mayall albums, and on the Rolling Stones' 1975 LP Black and Blue ("Hot Stuff", "Memory Motel"), having auditioned for Mick Taylor's job, which ultimately went to Ron Wood. "Mandel was a member of Canned Heat, appearing with them at Woodstock. He came up in that scene alongside Charlie Musselwhite, Mike Bloomfield, Barry Goldberg and Steve Miller, leading to an invitation from Bill Graham to open for Cream at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium in August 1967. Harvey Mandel is among the most innovative guitarists to emerge from the Chicago blues scene of the late 1960s.
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