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fave it Psychedelic | 70's Pop
12 tracks | 46 minutes
Released Jun 2006
on The Smarts
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:51 And Still the World It Goes lyrics BUY MP3 02:51 And Still the World It Goes lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:51 And Still the World It Goes
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:25 How Things Stand at Present lyrics BUY MP3 05:25 How Things Stand at Present lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:25 How Things Stand at Present
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:29 I Fully Intended This to Be a Love Song lyrics BUY MP3 04:29 I Fully Intended This to Be a Love Song lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:29 I Fully Intended This to Be a Love Song
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:59 What Can I Say? lyrics BUY MP3 01:59 What Can I Say? lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:59 What Can I Say?
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:22 Desiree lyrics FREE 04:22 Desiree lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:22 Desiree
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:54 The People's Republic of Woodbury lyrics BUY MP3 04:54 The People's Republic of Woodbury lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:54 The People's Republic of Woodbury
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:33 Here I'll Be lyrics BUY MP3 04:33 Here I'll Be lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:33 Here I'll Be
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:06 You Gotta Do (What You Gotta Do) lyrics BUY MP3 03:06 You Gotta Do (What You Gotta Do) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:06 You Gotta Do (What You Gotta Do)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:06 Pink Lemonade lyrics BUY MP3 04:06 Pink Lemonade lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:06 Pink Lemonade
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:20 This Girl I Know lyrics BUY MP3 03:20 This Girl I Know lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:20 This Girl I Know
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:33 Passage lyrics BUY MP3 04:33 Passage lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:33 Passage
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:48 Try Another lyrics BUY MP3 02:48 Try Another lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:48 Try Another
Catchy keyboard-centered pop with lotsa vocals and great players - Brill Building influenced with a little more edge; eclectic, psychedelic, jazzy.
Bio / Background
With a collective résumé encompassing the proto-grunge Glenrustles; the retro swing-jazz Hot Heads, the Straw Dogs, the Jaztronauts, and the Volare Lounge Orchestra; to country and bluegrass outfits like the Vibrochamps, the Becky Schlegel Band, and Reverse Cowgirl; to local pop/rock icons like Chan Poling and Tina Schlieske's Lola and the Red Hots, it's hard to believe there are only three guys in the Smarts. And their debut release, 'A Tribute To,' offers a musical curry of these weird and wonderful influences, which reveal themselves not only from song to song, but often within a tune itself.
Jimmy Kennedy covers all manner of jazz-influenced keyboards and a smattering of guitar. He composed every über-catchy melody on the album from the Brill Building style tunesmithing to the harder-edge nods to slam-dance era rock. Joe Weismann, the bassist, brings his upright to territories usually reserved for bass guitars.
↓ more ↓Joe also plays much of the guitar on the album and wrote the angular and sometimes obtuse lyrics. Morris Engel brings an aerobic quality to the percussion. All three members sing (often together in harmony or in unison and split lead vocals).
Also on display are the members' respective connections to one of the most impressive and varied list of sidemen in the Cities. Where else would jazz saxophone legend Dave Karr, bluegrass fiddler and PHC alum John Niemann, and rock guitar virtuoso Troy Norton all find themselves together on one record?
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