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Lest we go more than a week without recognizing polk-rock outfit Brave Combo as one of the true gems of the region, let’s use this bit of news as a quick reminder: Yesterday, the L.A. Times‘ music blog ran an item on the forthcoming Christmas album being released by one Bob Dylan–and in doing so, it went out of its way to give the two-time Grammy-winning Brave Combo a shout-out, crediting it for influencing Dylan’s direction on one of the more pivotal tracks on the release.
[Dylan’s] version of “Must Be Santa,” with David Hidalgo squeezing reindeer-quick accordion, is directly inspired by the arrangement that Texas rock-polka group Brave Combo created on its 1991 gem of a seasonal album, It’s Christmas, Man!
How ’bout that? Consider it just another factoid in the long line of head-scratching–but quite impressive–factoids boasted by Carl Finch and Co.
Oh, and you can catch Brave Combo performing at 9 p.m. on Tuesday night at The Sydicate in the University of North Texas’ University Union. But, more excitingly, you can as drop on by room 282 of UNT’s Kenton Hall at 4 p.m. earlier in that same day; there, the band will be participating in a question-and-answer session with fans, no doubt answering questions like “So, honestly, what was it like that one time when Bob Dylan may or may not have ripped your song off?”
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