LoginOvercome By Happiness
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Amazon.com's Best of 1998
Joe Pernice is to the Eastern Seaboard what Elliott Smith is to the Pacific Northwest: anything but happy, the ex-Scud Mountain Boy forgoes the cowboy Bread covers and surrounds himself with Van Dyke Parks/Brian Wilson-like orchestral arrangements, singing sad, sad songs about suicide and dead love in his fragile warble. Strangely, this makes for a bright gem of a disc filled with 1973-AM-pop-radio-worthy jewels. --Paige La Grone
Joe Pernice's former band, the Scud Mountain Boys, often dragged a kitchen table and chairs on-stage to replicate the homey feel of their spare and haunting music. Pernice's
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Manufacturer: Sub Pop
Release date: 19 May 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0098787042726 UPC: 098787042726
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Release date: 19 May 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0098787042726 UPC: 098787042726
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