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Sneakers Reissued


11/20/06
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(conqueroo) The late '70s was an exciting time for America's underground scene - Television had released "Little Johnny Jewel" and Patti Smith, "Piss Factory." Then along came a band from Winston-Salem with a self-titled four-song EP that only sold 3,500 copies but launched a movement that still thrives today. Sneakers released only two EPs in the late '70s and that was it--then they broke up. Three of its members - Chris Stamey, Mitch Easter and Will Rigby - later played in such bands as The dB's and Let's Active.

Sneakers' two EPs - The Sneakers (1976) and In The Red (1979) - along with additional 1992 recordings by Stamey and Easter comprise the 20 tracks heard on Nonsequitur Of Silence, a compilation of the band's recordings that will be issued on Collectors' Choice Music on January 30, 2007. Chris Stamey curated the project with liner notes by music writer Scott Schinder. Indie music publicist Cary Baker was reissue producer and "instigator."

The album contains a never-before-heard song, "Love That Girl," the recently rediscovered prototype of "Love's Like a Cuban Crisis." The Sneakers classic "Decline and Fall" is given a "Fidelitorium mix" with new drum tracks added by Mitch Easter. And the first EP is culled from restored original mixes, far superior to those heard on the band's earlier Racket anthology. All remixes were done from the original analog by Easter. It was lovingly remastered by Brent Lambert at the Kitchen Mastering in Carrboro, NC.

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