Half studio recordings and with side B taken from a live set at City Winery, this finds ’80s Hoboken contemporaries and longtime friends Richard Barone (best known for The Bongos, but part of many other ventures as well) and Glenn Mercer (guitarist and vocalist of The Feelies) covering ’70s glam-rock songs that shaped their youth and part of the foundation of their musical education before starting bands of their own.
That Barone is doing this shouldn’t be a surprise to fans who have been paying attention. Not only did The Bongos cover T Rex‘s “Mambo Sun” on their debut LP Drums Along the Hudson, but Barone also wrote extensively about his love for T Rex and Marc Bolan (as well as some of their contemporaries) in his wonderful 2007…

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