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| Sat 11/15/2008 |
Chapel Hill, NC |
| Sat 3/21/2009 |
Chicago, IL |
| Sat 3/21/2009 |
Chicago, IL |
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The Spares make twangy, bluesy, roots music—call it alt-country or Americana. The Chicago duo writes and sings about characters in hard places whose stories hint at love and truth in ways that the characters themselves don’t always recognize. Their lyrics are thoughtful and honest, just as their acoustic music is raw, beautiful, and compelling.
Jodee Lewis and Steve Hendershot formed The Spares in 2004, and in 2005 released the group's first CD, Hand Me Down. Roots Music Report called the CD "one of the finest Roots Rock/Americana albums to be released in 2005," and the lead song, "Mexico," was named Best Song -- Country" for 2006 by the International Academy of Independent Artists. The Spares toured throughout the Midwest.
Now The Spares are releasing a second CD, Beautiful and Treacherous Thing. As on Hand Me Down, the pair shares songwriting duties on this collection of songs about the volatility, longing and worth of the heart.
Smother Magazine made the new CD, Beautiful and Treacherous Thing, an Editor's Pick: "Guitars twang and clang about throughout this immediate and glossy roots rock album by a fitting duo known simply as the Spares. Unlike their name suggests, the group is no substitution for anything, nor are they temporary. The band mixes alt. country twang with gritty roots rock and urbanized Americana for a sound somewhere in heaven between Gram Parsons and Alison Krauss."
Newcity in Chicago writes that Beautiful and Treacherous Thing "is filled with fun, energy-filled and smart folk, twangy and positive, sunshiny and often gorgeous."
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