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What do you do when you’re so damn retro that even the vintage-infatuated hipsters of Austin are scratching their heads at your sound? Release a series of 45 singles, duh! T Bird and the Breaks, the funkiest bunch of white kids since Roy Head and the Traits, don’t shy away from their influences, but they sure as hell give them a good kick in the ass, as evidenced with by this year’s debut LP, Learn About It. But CD is so…turn of the century - and let’s not even get started on that digital stuff! No, T Bird is all about the old school, so it’s not really surprising Tim Crane and Co. decided to reissue their album on vinyl this fall, and are now dropping this run of 45s at a rate of one per month for the next six months. (They’re no fools, though, the singles are available for digital download too). The crew kicked it off this month with two new cuts, “Monkeywrench” b/w “Nightshade Mary,” and next month’s will apparently be led by a tune called “Juju Baby.” Esmerelda, Nightshade Mary, Juju Baby? We don’t know what kinda women ol’ T Bird’s been hanging around, but we recommend that boy gets himself checked out asap. And buy a 45 from him - those STD tests ain’t free!
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