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Friends of Dean Martinez

Lost Horizon
Released: Oct 4, 2005
Label: N\A
A bright and sunny album from Friends of Dean Martinez? -- not likely -- but Lost Horizon is the closest thing to an "up" album that the boys have yet put out. Where 2004's Random Harvest was all... Continue[+]
Live at Club 2
Released: Aug 23, 2005
Label: N\A
Four years after it was issued by the German label Glitterhouse, Friends of Dean Martinez's Live at Club 2 got its first stateside release, thanks to Aero Recordings. Recorded at the now-defunct... Continue[+]
Random Harvest
Released: Apr 20, 2004
Label: N\A
Just a year after they issued On the Shore, Friends of Dean Martinez returned with Random Harvest, an album that finds them at their most powerful since A Place in the Sun. However, Random Harvest... Continue[+]
Under the Waves
Released: Mar 1, 2003
Label: N\A
On the Shore
Released: Jan 28, 2003
Label: N\A
A sprawling, two-disc set, On the Shore continues the direction set by Atardecer and A Place in the Sun, and collects more of the group's sweeping, steel-guitar driven instrumentals. The first disc... Continue[+]
A Place in the Sun
Released: Feb 22, 2000
Label: N\A
A Place in the Sun marks another departure for Friends of Dean Martinez, who travel further away from their somewhat kitschy-sounding early work with each following effort. On their second album... Continue[+]
Atardecer
Released: Mar 23, 1999
Label: N\A
With the exception of steel guitarist Bill Elm, the personnel on Atardecer was entirely different from the lineup that contributed to The Shadow of Your Smile in 1995. Nevertheless, there was still... Continue[+]
Retrograde
Released: Jun 24, 1997
Label: N\A
On their second album, Retrograde, the Friends of Dean Martinez concentrate on the gritty, rootsy aspects of their sound; there's less Santo & Johnny and more Doug Sahm this time around. There's... Continue[+]
The Shadow of Your Smile
Released: Aug 22, 1995
Label: N\A
A post-modern fusion of Santo & Johnny, Dick Dale and the Ventures, with a heaping side order of Tex-Mex border music. Whether or not the musicians are playing this straight or not, they're playing... Continue[+]
Cordova/Monte Carlo
Released: 1996
Label: N\A
Just imagine if Combustible Edison where armed with slide guitars and raised somewhere south of the border; well they'd probably sound a lot like Friends of Dean Martinez. Both of these song have a... Continue[+]
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