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SPIN DOCTORS will release their new album \u201cIf The River Was Whiskey\u201d in the UK on May 6 through Ruf Records (US release is April 30). <\/p>\n
SPIN DOCTORS will release their new album \u201cIf The River Was Whiskey\u201d in the UK on May 6 through Ruf Records (US release is April 30). <\/p>\n
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Spin Doctors are the multi-million selling icons best known for the hit singles Two Princes and Little Miss Can\u2019t Be Wrong, not to mention the classic Pocket Full Of Kryptonite. This year, Chris Barron (vocals), Aaron Comess (drums), Eric Schenkman (guitar) and Mark White (bass) are reconnecting with the flat-broke twenty-somethings who scraped for dollars at the sharp end of the Big Apple blues circuit. The Spin Doctors have come full circle.<\/p>\n
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If The River Was Whiskey is the deep-blues album the Spin Doctors almost made before mega stardom came knocking. It finally bottles those near-mythical songs from their time on the sweatbox circuit. \u201cEvery note feels dangerous,\u201d says Chris Barron.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe were four guys in our twenties,\u201d remembers Aaron Comess of early days in the late \u201980s. \u201cOur goal was to write our own songs and make a living doing it. The blues is such a big part of our roots, but one of the reasons we came up with such a big catalogue of blues songs back then is that we\u2019d play these downtown blues bars in New York. You were supposed to play blues covers \u2013 but we were actually playing our own songs!\u201d<\/p>\n
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The concept to revisit these songs struck as the Spin Doctors toured Europe to toast the 20th anniversary of Pocket Full Of Kryptonite, and polled \u00fcber-fans David Landsburger and Daniel Heinze on what they\u2019d like to hear as the encore that night. Their answer \u2013 So Bad \u2013 was a song so old that Chris had almost forgotten the verses, but when the venue exploded, a light bulb lit over the band\u2019s heads. \u201cWe had such a good time playing these tunes,\u201d the singer explains, \u201cthat we thought, \u2018We should go make a record of this stuff\u2019. It\u2019s really brought us back as a band, musically and interpersonally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: http:\/\/www.spindoctors.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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