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Track listing. Personnel. Juliana Hatfield - vocals, guitars, bass, piano and keyboards. John Strohm - vocals, guitars, bass and keyboards. Freda Love Smith - vocals and drums. Evan Dando - bass, vocals and guitars. Jake Smith - guitars, piano and background vocals. Paul Mahern - programming. Production. Producer: Paul Mahern and Blake Babies.
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- March 6, 2001
- Echo Park Studios
- Alternative rock
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Dando was born in Essex, Massachusetts, on Boston's North Shore, to Susan, a former fashion model, and Jeffrey, who worked as a real estate attorney. At the age of nine, his family moved from Essex to Boston; his parents divorced two years later. In his teens Dando attended Commonwealth School in Boston. In the fall of 1986 he enrolled at Skidmore ...
The Lemonheads
While at Commonwealth, Dando met Ben Deily and Jesse Peretz, and in 1986 they formed the Whelps before changing their name to Lemonheads, like that of the candy manufactured by Ferrara Pan. The Lemonheads debuted at the Meltdown House in Cambridge on July 18, 1986, followed by a show at The Rat on August 19. The band recorded an EP, Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners, which got the attention of Taang! Records, a local label. The Lemonheads' first three albums, Hate Your Friends, Creator, an...
Solo career and collaborations
Dando worked with Australian musicians Nic Dalton and Tom Morgan, both of whom have been involved with The Lemonheads.[further explanation needed] In Sydney, he joined Dalton, Morgan, and a number of Half A Cow artists on a self-titled album by the band Sneeze and the album Coastal by Godstar. Dando participated in the Australian band the Givegoods, which featured Paul Dempsey of Something for Kate.[citation needed] Dando has worked regularly with Juliana Hatfield where he appeared on several...
While taking a break from making music with/as the Lemonheads, Dando met English model and musician Elizabeth Moses in 1998; they married two years later. Moses contributed photography to Dando's albums Live at the Brattle Theatre and Baby I'm Bored as well as the Lemonheads' 2006 eponymous album and its 2009 follow-up, Varshons, on which her backi...
Dando has been referenced in song by several musicians. 1. Ben Leewrote a tribute song called "I Wish I Was Him" 2. Dntel's "This is the Dream of Evan and Chan" is about a dream Ben Gibbard had about Dando and Cat Power's Chan Marshall 3. Frequent Dando collaborator Tom Morgan mentions "[his] Rock 'n Roll Friend Evan" in Smudge's 1991 single "Don't...
Albums
1. Live at the Brattle Theatre/Griffin Sunset EP(2001) 2. Baby I'm Bored (2003) (UK#30)
Singles
1. "Perfect Day" (1995, with Kirsty MacColl) (UK#75) 2. "Stop My Head" (2003) (UK#38) 3. "It Looks Like You" (2003) (UK#68)
The music was catchy and charming, if unexceptional in the long run. Of course, like so many bands, the Blake Babies didn't have a long run. Hatfield went solo and became an MTV darling, hitting ...
Released 13 March 2001 on Zoë (catalog no. ZOË 01143-1014-2; CD). Genres: Indie Pop, Jangle Pop, Indie Rock. Rated #1558 in the best albums of 2001. Featured peformers: Juliana Hatfield (performer), John P. Strohm (performer), Freda Love (performer), Evan Dando (guest), Jake Smith (guest), Paul Mahern (producer, recording engineer, mixing ...
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Additionally, Evan has sporadically appeared as a guest musician or vocalist on a variety of projects. He played on and wrote songs for the Blake Babies 2001 album, God Bless The Blake Babies , and provided lead vocals for Massive Attack string arranger/film composer (Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet) Craig Armstrong's cinematic-styled track "Wake ...
19 apr 2002 · A relic of college radio's infatuation with Boston's indie-pop scene, the reunion of Blake Babies is not, suffice it to say, as hotly anticipated as this summer's return of Roxy Music. But it's ...
