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Album Review

Chances are, unless you noticed AUM Fidelity's recent re-release of the '89 album Speckly, Shrimp Boat may be a mystery to you. The band shone brightly during the late '80s and early '90s on Chicago's art rock scene, before drifting apart in '93. And there they might have stayed, a more or less forgotten footnote in history, had it not been for a chance encounter with AUM's helmsman, Steven Joerg, and his passionate and incautious optimism for their music.

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Album Review

Shrimp Boat: Speckly

by Chris May
May 12, 2005

An almost-lost masterpiece of American songwriting, first released in '89 out of Chicago in a limited edition of a thousand vinyl copies, and otherwise unknown and unavailable until this CD edition, Speckly is on the face of it a strange album for AUM Fidelity to release. Not only is it a reissue, but it is in a completely different bag from nearly everything else on the label--rock 'n' roll with infusions of bluegrass, country, jazz, and a little blues and ...