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Track
List:
1. Intro
2. Anticipation
3. Brand New Key
4. Different Drum
5. Everything's Alright
Polyester Interlude
6. Hot Child in the City
7. Love Will Keep Us Together
8. Beer Interlude
9. Sweet Caroline |
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The
Susi French Connection EP, vol. 1
(File
Under Guilty Pleasure)
What do the Gentle Readers do in their spare time? They
morph into the fabulous Susi French Connection, playing
the 1970’s songs that made the whole world sing. Better
yet, the crowd sings.
With
their release The Susi French Connection EP Vol. 1,
the Gentle Readers celebrate what can only be explained
as a strange journey into another dimension. Recorded
live (mostly) over two shows, the band simply learned
songs they liked and enjoyed themselves. It nearly made
all members of the band want to stop working at a car
wash and selling insurance to pursue life in a wedding
band, but a carefully-timed intervention by interested
parties got the Readers back on track. They are currently
working on their own songs for a new release.
Were
the band to issue an official statement about their blissful
days as the Susi French Connection, it would read something
like this: “It was like an addicting, crippling
drug. We couldn’t stop - without the adoration playing
70’s songs brought us, we were afraid we might die.
But then, with help, we kicked it, and now we’re
back to a sober, normal life, where you suffer a lot,
occasionally experience mild sensations of contentment,
and mostly you work.”
 Anticipation
Love
Will Keep Us Together
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Atlanta,
Georgia’s Gentle Readers formed in 1992, hoping that the
allusion to Miss Manners they chose for their moniker would
suggest a gracious approach to rock and roll music. Each of
the band’s three albums is in fact a melodic, literate
affair that the critics have heartily endorsed and a loyal
and ever growing group of pop music enthusiasts have enjoyed.
It’s not too late to become a Gentle Readers convert;
it is, however, too late for the band to change their name.
Had they realized they would be mistakenly referred to as everything
from the Gentile Readers to the Gentle Beavers, they would
have simply called the band what it is: Ladies and Gentlemen
Playing Rock Music for Ladies and Gentlemen.
