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Concrete Blonde returns with live album, tour
Concrete Blonde releases its first live album on March 18, but fans who want the real thing can catch the band on the club circuit this winter and spring.
"Live from Brazil" is a two-disc set that features many of the group's best-known songs, including "Joey," "Mexican Moon," "God is a Bullet" and "When I Was a Fool." It was recorded in Sao Paulo, Porte Allegro, and Rio De Janeiro during the group's 2002 tour.
The Los Angeles band's line-up for the concerts included vocalist Johnette Napolitano, guitartist Jim Mankey and drummer Gabriel Ramirez-Quezada.
The band, first named Dream 6, formed in 1982 amid a Los Angeles post-punk scene that boasted groups like X , Wall of Voodoo and the Plimsouls. The group--which then featured drummer Harry Rushakoff--signed with Miles Copeland's IRS records in 1987, and went on to record five albums for the label. Copeland's Ark 21 label will issue "Live from Brazil."
In January of 2002, Concrete Blonde released "Group Therapy," its first album of original material since 1993's "Mexican Moon."
Rushakoff has had well-publicized substance abuse problems, and his relationship with the band has been on and off. He recorded "Group Therapy" with the band, but was jailed on drug-related charges shortly after he disappeared in the midst of Concrete Blonde's subsequent tour.
