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The Skip Heller Trio : Mean Things Happening In This Land
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Pan-american jazz influenced by ska, calypso, surf, exotica, and more
Genre: Jazz: Weird Jazz
Release Date: 2006
Mean Things Happening In This Land Record Label: Skyeways
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Dear God 5:19 Album Only
Katrina, Mon Amour 5:36 Album Only
Heckuva Job 5:02 Album Only
Motel Room in My Bed 4:43 Album Only
Beautiful Bright Blue Skye Eyes 3:53 Album Only
Hideout in the Sun 2:39 Album Only
President Nero? 4:02 Album Only
The Kind of Beauty That Moves 6:36 Album Only
Punk Rock Girl 4:12 Album Only
Aragon Mill 2:28 Album Only
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Album Notes

This might go down as the definitive Skip Heller record -- organ trio grooves splashed with calypso, ska, surf, jam band stuff, and punk rock. Mostly originals, but covers from XTC, X, the Dead Milkmen, and Si Kahn.

Recorded in three days -- inlcuding mixing -- in Magnolia Springs, Alabama, this one has all the grease and soul we've come to expect, but takes such a Pan-American approach to a seemingly cliched format that we're almost afraid to call it an organ combo record.

Almost. No loss of funk, steam, or swing here.

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