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Dear John Letters : Rewriting The Wrongs
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"Punchy, melodic, and even gorgeous at times, they write pop songs that stick in your head and warm up your heart."
Genre: Pop: Beatles-pop
Release Date: 2001
Rewriting The Wrongs Record Label: Roam Records
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
The Other Shoe 2:52 $0.99
Glass Houses 3:11 $0.99
Personal Demons 3:22 $0.99
The Untitled Song 3:38 $0.99
Malkamus 3:00 $0.99
Jd's Song 3:39 $0.99
Stretch 3:16 $0.99
Highway Hotel 5:18 $0.99
A Dear John Letter 2:10 $0.99
Anchor 2:57 $0.99
Love Junkie 4:32 $0.99
Amb 1:59 $0.99
Rocks & Monsters 3:11 $0.99
North 2:58 $0.99
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Album Notes

See singer/guitarist Robb Benson and Drummer Cassady Laton play in "DEPT OF ENERGY". This is the latest band featuring two of the four Dear John Letters members.

---------------------------DEAR JOHN LETTERS

"Out of nowhere comes Rewriting The Wrongs, and I think I may have found the best album of 2001."
- Alex Green (music.yahoo.com)

"A great full-length from a band that could make a career list out of a struggling major label scout."
- Theodore Defosse (splendid)

"This is very solid indie-pop"
- (CM) Impact Press

"Sublime debut album."
- Joe Ehrbar (Seattle PI)

"Often gentle and wholesome, sometimes acrimonious, Benson's songwriting warmly refers to the Beatles."
- Corianton Hale (The Stranger)

"A pleasing, intelligent collection from a songwriter aiming for both the head and the heart."
- Adam McKibbin (Entertainment Today)

"Somehow they've balanced a contemporary indie aesthetic, an outsider musical genre, and the sounds of one of the most famous musicians of the 20th century into a contemporary album that stands on its own and makes Dear John Letters an act that seems fresh and vital instead of derivative."
- Patrick Schabe (PopMatters)

"It's got the same distant moodiness and melodrama that frames John Lennon's first two solo LP's, scaled down of course to a smaller budgeted, do-it-yourself ethos."
- (The Big Takeover)

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REVIEWS

Great album! A combination of folk and rock elements.
author: Nate
I really liked this CD. Some songs to me are reminiscent of Dashboard Confessionals, while others more remind me of the Postal Service. It combines what I would call an emo style with some folk/bluegrass harmonies to create a very pleasant blend of music. I'd recomend this CD to anyone who likes Dashboard Confessionals, the O Brother Where Art Though soundtrack, or just plain great music that, unfortunately, not many people know about :-). My only complaint is the lack of lyrics in the CD booklet.
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