Thee Fine Lines
S/T
Licorice Tree

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From straight outta Springfield, Missouri (where?!), Thee Fine Lines are two bros and one foxy bass player (Trista Winn, a petite charmer all gussied up like a French beatnik in her stripy shirt and hoop earrings on the cd booklet!) who play raw, rock ‘em sock ‘em 60’s garage punk. Not the phony cell phone commercial kinda stuff, mind you, which surprised me, seeing as Trista has a pink bass, and the brothers look like Math Club champs. I mean, they don’t LOOK like they’re gonna tear yr throat out with gritty, savage rock n’ roll, but they do. Their sound is somewhere ‘tween the Sonics and the Cramps, with a dirty lil’ dash o’ the gravelly raunch of the Mummies and the dive-bombing snarl of the Dwarves, and hell, you can even fuckin’ DANCE to this, if you know the Wooly Bully or the Sorority Shakedown. “Tears are Rolling”, being the meanest song on the record ( “I’m gonna make you cry!”) is my clear fave, but this one's an all-nite rocker, really. Bitchin'.
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-Sleazegrinder