Smithereens - Christmas With The Smithereens Release:Christmas With The Smithereens Sunset BLVD Records the record's sound harkens to

the record's sound harkens to an era when the SoCal sound dominated the FM dial

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Sparr has been described as a "A Texas guitar whiz with the chops to bang his sounds out to all fields across the entire music spectrum

Some early sets of short pieces for cello and piano certainly helped him to gain an enormous confidence and facility in that combination so that

Smithereens - Christmas With The Smithereens Release:Christmas With The Smithereens Sunset BLVD Records the record's sound harkens toLimited Edition: "Christmas with The Smithereens" is more than a Christmas time cover album. This quartet does an impressive job of channeling the spirt of 1960s rock, and solidly interpreting each memorable tune. The band's originals add a nice twist to the disc and are written with such '60s savviness that without prior knowledge it would almost be difficult to decide which songs were covers and which were originals. Lead singer Pat DiNizio wraps