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Outrageous Cherry – Seemingly Solid Reality

It’s been a good 15 years since Outrageous Cherry and I first crossed paths. There has not been a lot of change, other than people, between their eponymous debut and this album. To a degree, over that time, mastermind Matthew Smith has pared things down further, particularizing them. On that first go round the sound was more typically rock-band-out-in-the-garage. Here he’s still painting with echo and spinning intuitive melodies. But the component pieces are laid out more distinctly.

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Start All Over Again – with Frank Secich & The Deadbeat Poets

After being away from the music business far too long Frank Secich together with some old friends formed the Deadbeat Poets in Youngstown, Ohio last summer. This spring of 2007 they’ve been recording their debut album Notes From The Underground which has just been released on the new label Pop Detective Records.

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• Small Faces - I'm only Dreaming (video of week 14) #
• Today Elvis should have been 75. Here is my favourite song with the King, at least the one I played the most through the years. His Latest Flame, including some nice photos. #
• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced ABBA, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges as its 2010 artist inductees. #