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Friday, August 04, 2006
The Greenhornes
Apparently, I'm not the only one who still enjoys '60s-era, garage band-style music.

A friend sent me a disc by a Cincinnati-based band called the Greenhornes, and I had to double check that those guys didn't record it around 1966. No, "Dual Mono" - there's a great name for an album! - was released in 2002, by musicians who were a long way from being born yet when this style of music was in its heyday.

My music-conoisseur buddy had heard the Greenhornes playing on the soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's film "Broken Flowers," which features the band's song "There Is An End." Actually, that's an interesting selection, as it features a guest vocal by Holly Golightly, who also has worked with the garage-inspired White Stripes. The rest of "Dual Mono" features band co-founder Craig Fox singing in a way that would make David Aguilar proud. (The Chocolate Watchband was the first actual '60s garage band to pop into my head, and Aguilar was its lead vocalist.)

At any rate, I've been blaring "Dual Mono" from my car stereo since receiving the disc, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone who wants to go back about 40 years without leaving the 21st century.

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