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amazon.co.uk - 1/19/2009

Ode to Sunshine: Delta Spirit: Amazon.co.uk: Music

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Sunday Times, Decmber 21, 2008 A San Diego quintet, Delta Spirit make a glorious racket, equal parts rough-and-ready barroom pop and alt-country. Tasting notes for their wonderful debut album, Ode to Sunshine, might read: early-1970s Stones, Waterboys, hints of Kinks, Gomez undertones, ...

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TEN4SE7EN: Episode 22
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