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October 13, 1998

BoDeans' Sam Llanas Gets Deep on Solo Effort

solo project
October 9, 1998

Party of One

BoDeans frontman takes hiatus to pursue solo project
October 27, 1997

The BoDeans: Gettin' It
May 29, 1997

Rock Goes Solar

Rock Goes Solar

Go Slow Down

Over four previous albums and numerous personnel changes, the BoDeans, from Waukesha, Wis., have explored the expansive terrain of American music – country, folk, blues, R&B, pop and rockabilly – with a restless, stubborn (and sometimes erratic) passion. On Go Slow Down, the BoDeans have...

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The title of BoDeans' debut album, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, alludes to the Rolling Stones song "Shattered," and to promote it, Llanas, Neumann, Griffin, and Hoffman went by the stage names Sammy, Beau, Bob, and Guy BoDean, a la the Ramones. Both bands have strongly influenced BoDeans' bracing guitar rock; the band's wistful pop sensibility, however, is evocative of Buddy Holly and the Everly...

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