BoDeans

It's a sad and oft-repeated story. A spunky regional band signs with a major label, records
an album true to its roots and subsequently makes slicker, less convincing records in the
quest for platinum. In the case of this Waukesha, Wisconsin, quartet, such a misstep is
particularly distressing. The band's 1986 debut, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, produced by
T-Bone Burnett, featured hopelessly cornball love songs, a scruffy mix of acoust... More >