OVERVIEW :: Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. While Charlie Hunter's other plans have included other bands (most recently including Garage-a-trois and Groundtruther), other gigs (endless dates as a sideman, studio musician and collaborator), and other formations of his own band (from duo, to quartet, to quintet), Charlie has always found himself gong back to where it all began: the trio, which has finally become his band, the one that's gonna stick together, grow old together. Now together for over five years, having toured the world (and beyond), the Charlie Hunter Trio follows up 2003's Friends Seen and Unseen with Copperopolis. The album features the same three guys, but it's different in one big way: it rocks. Literally. "I was just feeling rocky, I guess," says the band leader. The addition of John Ellis' playing on both the Wurlitzer and the melodica opened up a lot of space for Charlie to simply shred. This is the album that fans (and ropeadope) have been calling on for years. Pop it in, turn it up, and rock it out. You shall see. TRACK LIST :: 01. Cueball Bobbin' 02. Frontman 03. Swamba Redux 04. Copperopolis 05. Blue Sock~ 06. The Pursuit Package 07. A Street Fight Could Break Out 08. Drop The Rock 09. Think Of One