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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Better Than Ezra |
| Record Label: |
Elektra Entertainment |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Alternative |
| Release Date: |
February 28, 1995 |
| Album Duration: |
53m:35s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. In the Blood 2. Good 3. Southern Gurl 4. Killer Inside 5. Rosealia 6. Cry in the Sun 7. Teenager 8. 8 9. Summerhouse 10. Porcelain 11. Heaven 12. This Time of Year 13. Coyote |
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Better Than Ezra: Kevin Griffin (vocals, guitar); Tom Drummond (bass); Cary Bonnecaze (drums, vocals). Additional personnel: Melanie Owens, Dan Rothchild (vocals); Lily Hayden (violin); Martin Tillman (cello); Walt Thompson (Hammond B-3 organ). Recorded at Padded Cell Studio, Los Angeles, California from May to June 1993. As surely as long-haired, mother-loving bands from Florida, Alabama and Georgia could put the smell of cotton on '70s arena-rock, the children of the South are now cottoning to modern rock. The boundaries have loosened up a bit--the paradigms of this new breed of Southern rock include Live, from Pennsylvania (just above the Mason-Dixon line), and Arizona's Gin Blossoms--and so has the form. The boogie and jangle of old now compete with distorted guitar crunching, and while the new Southern bands honor and respect the family, they're not afraid to recognize how dysfunctional one can be. Call it cotton alternative. New Orleans, Louisiana's Better Than Ezra are deep in it--backwoods enough... |
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