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Published on: 11/15/2006
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On Choose Your Fix, Dauer locates a melodic, comfortable spot between power pop and the roots- and radio-friendly work of your Counting Crows and Wallflowers of yore and your Train and Minibar of today. (Not coincidentally, among those sitting in with Dauer are a couple of guys with Wallflowers and Minibar on their resumes.) It's a sound that brings to mind the likes of circa-AM Wilco (the brilliant opener "Sentimental Tattoo" opener) and Matthew Sweet ("Undertow"), but the familiarity it breeds is welcome instead of distracting.
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Dauer is a talented songwriter and vocalist, and, man, does he have a way with a melody.But Choose Your Fix reveals his most impressive gifts to be his versatility as a band leader (he clearly knows his way around a glockenspiel and a pedal steel) and the ability to conjure the recent musical past while dodging the derivative tag.
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Marc Dauer is the main force behind the band and was in the well-reviewed Five Easy Pieces whose first effort was produced a few years back by T Bone Burnett.Dauer's picture in the CD booklet in a kind of cowboy hat is misleading.He looks like a guy who's ready for a residency gig at an Austin club but this is roots rock, not alt-country.
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Digressioni beatlesiane (Over and over), chitarre limpide ed organi d'atmosfera (Reason to believe), dolci ballate folk-rock (Wrecking ball) e qualche impennata rock'n'roll (Undertow), in un disco che scorre senza particolari intoppi fino alla fine, parlando il linguaggio di un pop-rock dai grandi spazi e dai modi gentili. - Innocente Source: www.rootshighway.it &PRESS7= A strong debut album of jangly roots-rock reminiscent of early Wilco and the Jayhawks from this LA band led by former Five Easy Pieces frontman Marc Dauer. - Don Yates Source: kexp.org &PRESS8= Led by former Five Easy Pieces frontman Marc Dauer, the Jukebox Junkies' self-titled debut album takes off where his brilliant former pop/rock band left off, and also leads the listener into a different, slightly more rustic musical territory.
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But even as Dauer cites those alt-country-pop darlings as a definite influence, the Jukebox Junkies seem to have a firm grasp in what makes joyous music truly joyous.Where Wilco and Jeff Tweedy are often wont to trip along the frayed lines of pop perfection and hazy late night bar room sobriety, Dauer leads his group through a set of eleven great songs on Choose Your Fix that are simply amazingly feel good.
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Dauer formerly fronted the band Five Easy Pieces, whose MCA debut in 1998 found a lot of fans but little marketing push as the label was going through the bad times of corporate restructuring, and well, great music often gets pushed aside in favor of shit that will sell in those instances.
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Doing it his way allowed Dauer to create an album he liked very much."I got the opportunity to make the album I wanted, for less than the food budget on my last album", noted Marc dryly.
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