February 19, 2009
The Go-Betweens
The Undertones
The Undertones
The Exciters
King Floyd
The Yardbirds
Family Fodder
The Libertines
Shirley Ellis
Shearwater's songs about man's relationship with nature boom and swoop with epic grace and grandeur.
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