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Artist: The Long Winters
Website: www.thelongwinters.com/
Track Name: Stupid
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes

Another indie band from Seattle, raw sounding guitars, vocals you can understand, and a nice line in the lyrics department amd a great sense of humour and they’re smart. For example

Clearly, it would be presumptuous for us to expect you to enjoy our music without having heard it. Thus, please help yourself to full-length, high-quality versions of our songs in the popular MP3 audio format.

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My pick was “Stupid”. I think it’s a keeper (I am getting ready to scrub everything off the MP3 player and start all over again).

Here is some stuff from the press release…

So, who, or what, is / are the Long Winters?
Well, I’m a klutzy ding-dong who managed to stumble into a record contract with a label run by a bunch of naive hippies. I threw together a band out of the guys in my neighborhood, borrowed a van, and started living the dream. That was four years ago. Most of the original band members have quit because they didn’t understand my “vision”, but there’s a sucker born every minute so the band soldiers on.

I thought you were the Steely Dan of Alaska?
In the sense that the State Band of Alaska is .38 Special, you could make a case that I am Alaska’s Donald Fagen. We’re both very handsome, we both use jazzy chords in the service of scoring ladies, and we both spend too much time in the studio monkeying with the bass parts. That would make Eric Corson my Walter Becker. This is getting truer by the minute. All I need to find is my Michael McDonald.

and so on and so on. If all that brings a smile, try reading their bio pages. Very silly people, I wish them well.

Oh, the other four tracks on the download page are pretty fine as well.

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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