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Title: beat poetry to music
Review: I liked the pure rock and roll of this cd and then...I saw the Hold Steady live at lollapalooza and the pure joy of this group overwhelmed me and made me a believer. Their lyrics are bukowskian and kerouacian and their music is joyously and shamelessly derivative of springsteen and chuck berry and john cougar and probably just about every american rock and roll hero in the last several decades. God bless these guys from Minneapolis who put a band together just so they would have an excuse to get together and drink beer once a week.
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