The Softies - Winter Pageant 2024-02 The wistful "The Boy With

The wistful "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side" and the epic "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" are two of the crowning achievements in the band's oeuvre and they provide the ideal cornerstone for what is a remarkable overall album

against-all-odds rise has been well-documented – how he transcended a bleak life on the streets and struggled through a series of ill-fitting jobs – most famously as a James Brown impersonator at Brooklyn clubs – before finally being discovered by Daptone's Gabriel Roth

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of healing and the true self

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The Softies - Winter Pageant 2024-02 The wistful "The Boy WithLP, Reissue K Records (2024) US On their second album, Winter Pageant, The Softies move forward with focused delight. Its the combination of Jen Sbragia (All Girl Summer Fun Band) and Rose Melberg (Tiger Trap, Gaze, Go Sailor) that molds The Softies panoply: feathers and thorns, fawn and fearless, fable and friction. Originally released in 1997, Winter Pageant is the drama of utter melancholia documenting the broken promises, missed phone calls,