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The Pralines

About Me

The Pralines bring together mid-60s pop influences with classic roots/Americana. Song of the Day Café brings to mind the hope and innocence of that earlier era of rock music, when young people still believed they could change the world and that a better future was possible. The Pralines have found a sideways path to a forgotten suburbia where hope still lives and the air smells sweetly of new-mown grass … and someone’s older brother’s band is making a glad and raucous racket in the garage...

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Member Since: 22/10/2004
Band Website: www.sonicbids.com/thepralines
Band Members: Pamela Richardson - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Harmonica; Ric Salazar - Lead guitar, Mandolin, Accordion; Brent Willems - Bass; Danny McLean - Drums.Song of the Day Cafe - CD personnel: Tim Ferguson - Bass ("Paris and My Own Life Passing"); Bruce Hutchison - Bass; Eddie Torrez - Accordion, Melodica; Matt Walters - Keyboards, Slide Guitar; Derek Walvoord - Viola.Bonus track, "Redeye to Loveland": Freddie Steady Krc - Guitar, Harmony Vocals, Producer/Arranger; Bradley Kopp - Guitar; Mark Andes - Bass; "Waco" Jack McVey - Drums.
Influences: Inspired in various an' sundry ways by (in no particular order) ...... Beatles, Byrds, Kinks, Who, Love, Left Banke, Bernard Herrmann, Scopitones, Thomas Fersen, Pogues, E. Annie Proulx, Yann Tiersen, Kirsty MacColl, Keren-Ann, Monty Python, The Simpsons, Monkees, Jayhawks, Doug Sahm, Donovan, Beau Brummels, Gogol Bordello, Joanne Harris, Calexico, Michael Nyman, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Charles Dickens, The Marx Brothers, Billy Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Badfinger/Pete Ham, Alfred Hitchcock, Taraf de Haïdouks, Neil Young, Zombies, Lynch/Badalamenti, Oscar Wilde, Joni Mitchell, Colette, Audrey Hepburn, Stan Freberg, They Might Be Giants, Iggy Pop, Larry Storch, Tom Lehrer, Dillard & Clark, Hans Zimmer, Les Yeux Noirs, Orson Welles, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Elmer Bernstein, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Elvis Costello, Lina Wertmuller, Giancarlo Giannini, Warren Zevon, The Roches, Sergio Leone, to be continued ...
Sounds Like: a good time for a cocktail! Martini, shaken, not stirred ... hey, it's five o'clock somewhere!
Record Label: Spade Kitty Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Pralines at Midwest IPO!

The Midwest International Pop Overthrow is upon us, and The Pralines are delighted to be a part of it!  Please come out and see us next Wednesday for our IPO slot at The Birds Nest.  Also, please tun...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:08:00 GMT

PRALINES IN AUSTIN SATURDAY!

Yessirree, we're scurryin' away from this long Chicago winter to the balmy, bracing an' embracing climes of beautiful Austin for the following two gigs!  Hope to see you there!  xoSATURDAY, 3/21  11:...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:09:00 GMT

September Gigs!

Hope to see you at one of the following.  Cheers!   -- Pam   Thursday, Sept. 18 -- 8:30 p.m. Fitzgerald's 6615 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn, IL http://www.fitzgeraldsnightclub.com w...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:16:00 GMT

Better a late blog than no blog at all

Hi all, Pammy here, updating the page and enjoying a mellow state of joie de vivre ... it's a gorgeous sunny fall day and all is well, having returned recently from jump-starting a new CD in purtyful ...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:38:00 GMT

Wednesday I Got Friday on My Mind

Welcome to my very first blog! It feels like a Friday because I'm about to leave for vacation. Visiting my mum in Florida, going to see Seinfeld, then zipping back in plenty of time to VOTE on 11/02...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:54:00 GMT