Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers

... did last night.

So it's no secret, I've mentioned this band before, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers.

They were The Refreshments before The Refreshments split up, and the lead singer and the drummer formed Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers.

I've been, I've been a fan of The Refreshments for 30 years.

It's the 30th anniversary of their first album, Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy, which is one of my favorite albums.

It's like, as, as many times as I've, you know, talked about Springsteen, Mellencamp, you know, all the stuff that I like, I would put Fizzy Fuzzy up against any album.

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So anyway, I saw the Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers, I saw them in Arizona in December, went back out to Arizona in March.

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... scene, you know, with, uh, Roger Cline and-

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... and a bunch of those guys, so that's cool.

Um, they taught me that there was a world out there besides mainstream country, and I got really into them when I was in high school.

But when I got to college, um, the, the bars that I would go to to listen to music would play especially The Refreshments, which became Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers, um, right alongside, like, The Ragweeds of the world, and that was, that was how I got this understanding that there was overlap in music scenes.

So, um, I, I, I was so taken by it that I went and lived in Phoenix for a time.

And so-

What I'm actually going to do after those last two, which were accidents, um, I am back working on Sonoran Sounds, and that is what we talked about.

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That is, that's the Tempe era and the Mill Avenue era in the '90s that was Gin Blossoms, what became Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers, Dead Hot Workshop, and then it was that emo and rock and punk scene that- ... arose in the 2000s.

That's Jimmy Eat World, The Format, The Maine, and it's also the modern influences on the worlds of country and folk.