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The Elvis Brothers - Movin' Up

Ladies and gentlemen, The Elvis Brothers. I stumbled on their 1985 release Adventure Time a few years ago and really liked it, which sent me hunting for their other records ... and where I live they're a little harder to find but as it turns out not impossible, as I have found the first two records. I found not one, but two copies of Screams (I sent the other to a friend who lives in Illinois who was trying to find a copy), the band Brad was in back in the late '70s. Their first couple of albums came out on Portrait, and when the label folded in ’86, the band went on hiatus for seven years. I doubt I’ll ever track it down, but the original trio took one last kick at the can in ’92 with Now Dig This  - after which they once again faded into the pop ether. I found a pretty nice copy of their debut  Movin' Up by accident (it happens) last April and I immediately sent a pic to my buddy Jeff who wrote back without missing a beat telling me which tracks he really liked. I hav...

Screams - Screams

Screams is a band who came to my attention through my buddy Jeff. I've mentioned Jeff a few times, often in a derogatory manner as he is one of those jacks of all trades and master of all, types who despite his protestations that he is in fact just a normal guy , is in fact not normal. In short I'm more than a little jealous and proud of my friend ... A while back I found an Elvis Brothers album and I had just written up. Jeff casually brokered an introduction to Brad Elvis (Brad Steakley) and we traded a couple of really pleasant notes. Brad has a pretty active Facebook which is fun to keep up with. Anyway (yeah, I may have to edit this for clarity at some point) I found out Brad had been in a band called Screams, and that Jeff had been looking for the album for a long time. I decided I'd look for it, and I found not one, but two copies in a little second hand record store close to where I live so I sent Jeff one, and kept the other. When Brad and I were trading notes he...

The Elvis Brothers - Adventure Time

The Elvis Brothers are a new to me experience. I'm trying to remember how this came to be on my radar. I suspect it was the result of hearing the name mentioned by my friend Jeff (who has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things pop that kind of irritates me to be honest - because I'm older than he is, and it gets up my crack that he's more than my equal when it comes to the accumulation of useless trivia regarding music) AND then looking them up on the internet and seeing Adrian Belew's name associated.  Rambling Tangent Alert: Adrian Belew first came to my attention back in 1983 when a wonderful young lady said my homemade DIY "albums" reminded her of Adrian Belew in their quirkiness.  To me this was incredibly intriguing, so I rushed out and purchased Twang Bar King , and Lone Rhino and quickly discovered that my friend was being overly generous as those two albums were life changing and expanded my musical palate beyond anything else I'd ever heard to ...