Singing earnest, solid rock songs with infectious hooks, The BoDeans have always presented an urgent, heartfelt hopefulness. Founded by Waukesha, Wisconsin, buddies Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas in the 1980s, they laid out a template for a winning brand of […]
No one knows better than the BoDeans that American bands have a way of sounding better on record with T Bone Burnett producing them. This is the third time the darlings of Waukesha, Wisconsin, have hooked up with him. But […]
Fueled by the uncanny, sibling-tight vocal interplay and ambitious-to-eccentric songwriting of guitarists Sammy Llanas and Kurt Neumann, the BoDeans caught commercial and critical success in the late-’80s/early-’90s. Llanas’ keening, adenoidal gymnastics, the group’s most distinctive (and, occasionally, most annoying) feature, […]
As debuts go, the BoDeans’ Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams is one tough act to follow. With such enduringly catchy singles as “She’s A Runaway”, “Fadeaway” and “Say You Will”, the BoDeans’ 1986 disc put the Wisconsin roots-rock […]
Between 1980 and 1986, Slash Records assembled a talented roster of acts that included, at one time X, the Blasters, Los Lobos and the BoDeans. With its acquisition of reissue rights for Slash’s catalog, Rhino has begun tapping into the […]
Bursting out of Waukesha, WI in 1986 on the heels of the T Bone Burnett-produced Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, the BoDeans sounded like a trap door out of new-wave hell, back into a no-frills nirvana where acoustic […]
