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Spin Doctors, If The River Was Whiskey. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is something strangely comforting about revisiting a group’s past, even if it over 20 years later. The experience of listening to how songs sounded then to how you know they sound now live can be cathartic, a nod to the nostalgic in us all. It is even more humbling when you put place a new C.D. on, slip the headphones over the ears and wallow in something so majestically cool that you can only check the album over a few times just to make sure that the C.D. isn’t the wrong one, that what you are listening to really is the band a quarter of century later.

The Spin Doctors, Gig Review. Eric’s, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Judging by the rousing reception the members of The Spin Doctors got from the audience at Eric’s it might be hard to believe that New York American alternative rockers have not released an album in eight years. A lot of bands would go stale with that type of time away and even drift apart and go their own separate ways.