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Big People Shoes Every town plays the same record just a different sleeve sings Emily Dupuis in perhaps her most perfect summary of the stories told in The Blue Mollies debut album, Big People Shoes. This is more than just a record by one of the Twin Cities best new bands, this is a record of life experience experiences that we all reflect upon late in the evening when the sun has gone down and all that is left is the settling in of personal reflection about family, day to day struggles, death, and ultimately the longing for happiness that we all can achieve.Big Peoples Shoes is a journey through tragedy, self-destruction, relationships good and bad, wanton debauchery, and personal evaluation. The album champions The Blue Mollies combination of their influences (Aimee Mann, Wilco, Neil Young, Lucinda Williams, etc...) with their individual backgrounds (from Twin Cities bands The Bottlehouse, Hookhead, The Camdens, Tremorphlo, and The Rakes) in a sound that is equal parts scrappy rock and roll, boot-slappin country, and sonic experimentation.Working on the album through the winter months of 2005-06 in Minneapolis an annual period of stoic reflection imbedded in the Midwest culture Big People Shoes was the collaboration of the The Blue Mollies as veterans of their own devices. Recorded in the bands rehearsal studio and at the home of Emily and Steve Dupuis by the bands former bassist Aaron Pruitt, the Blue Mollies powerful debut is a collaboration of like minded musical miscreants all with a shared vision, to communicate through honest music and to learn how to walk in these Big People Shoes. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

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Member Since: 28/01/2006
Band Members: Emily Dupuis: lead vocals, guitar, keys Steve Dupuis: guitar, vocals Kirk Hall: drums, vocals Brad "Thumbs" Konkel: bass Amanda Mann: background vocals/harmonization
Influences: Lucinda Williams, Wilco, The Jayhawks, The Band, Neil Young, Paul Westerberg, The Replacements, Drive By Truckers, Aimee Mann, Kathleen Edwards, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Bettie Serveert, Big Star, Guided By Voices, Mathew Sweet, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Mould, Husker Du, The Byrds, Califone, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Carol King, Los Lobos, Cheap Trick, The Clash, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, The Flaming Lips, The Grateful Dead, Emmylou Harris, The Lemmonheads, The Faces, The Figgs, Fleetwood Mac, The Pixies, Gillian Welsh, Gini Dodds, Golden Smog, Gram Parsons, Grandpaboy, Grant Lee Buffalo, The Hangups, Hank Williams, Hank III, Ike Reilly, Run Westy Run, The Pretenders, Jane's Addiction, Jay Farrar, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joe Henry, Joe Strummer, John Lennon, George Harrison, Johnny Cash, The Who, Pete Townshend, Joe Strummer, Jonathan Richmond, Joni Mitchell, The Kinks, Liz Phair, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Victoria Williams, Mary Lou Lord, Radiohead, Mike Watt, Modest Mouse, Morphine, Neko Case, Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, Bash & Pop, Perfect, Tommy Stinson, REM, Rickie Lee Jones, Slim Dunlap, Sly & The Family Stone, Soul Coughing, Steve Earl, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Ray Vaughan, They Might Be Giants, Television, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Tommy Womack, Townes Van Zandt, Woody Guthrie, Walt Mink, Ween, Whiskeytown, The Rank Strangers, etc, etc, etc...
Sounds Like: It sounds.
Type of Label: Major

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