Compared, favorably, to Steve Earle, REM, the Bottle Rockets, and Minneapolis' late, great Gear Daddies, once written up on the front page of the USA Today's "Life" section, even having managed to lure dreamy starlet Janeane Garofalo into a co-starring role their lone, largely unseen video "Hey Janeane."

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