LEMONPEELER: The First Time

Lemonpeeler

The First Time

© 2001 Ninetime Music (660355977626)

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A Boston based "roots-pop"rock band with classic sound of sweet harmonies, fuzz driven guitar leads, wonderful songs and a harmonious verve.

tracks

1 Automatic
2 The First Time
3 Around
4 Annabelle's Design
5 The Limit On You
6 Northbound Plane
7 Two Sisters
8 Take Me Back
9 Caroline's Gone

notes

Lemonpeeler began playing on the local Boston rock circuit in 1999. Their 2001 debut album "The First Time" was praised by national press and played by radio stations around the globe. Featuring excellent songs with melodic hooks, distinctive harmony vocals, and gritty guitar lines, Lemonpeeler is most often compared to Neil Young's Crazy Horse, the Jayhawks and Matthew Sweet

The critically acclaimed "The First Time" (currently out of print in hard copy but for sale at the iTunes music store) created a surprise window of success for the band, followed by a tour of 18 U.S. cities. In the fall of '02, Lemonpeeler released a 6 song EP. Despite two songs being chosen for the internationally distributed Teri Hatcher film entitled "A Touch of Fate", the group went through a period of turmoil. What was to have been a sophomore release was instead a collection of rushed productions. In 2003, lead singer Michael Hayes began a new project called the Vinyl Skyway, which has release two album since that time and now features Lemonpeeler drummer Booth Hardy and bassist Rob Pevitts in addition to Andy Santospago, Dave Lieb and Michael Hayes.

Though Lemonpeeler has not released any music since 2002, they continue to perform whenever founding member Jim Eddy finds time away from changing diapers and running his own company.

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  • ...a brilliant amalgamation of pop, country, and roots rock...
    author: Pop Matters

    Put out on the band's own Sissybar label, The First Time is a brilliant amalgamation of pop, country, and roots rock. The obligatory comparisons to Wilco and the Jayhawks have been made, and there are certain shades of Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown. But Lemonpeeler is a band that doesn't sit still while you try to pin it down as "yet another alt-country act". Other critics have already uncovered traces of Girlfriend-era Matthew Sweet, Counting Crows, and Toad the Wet Sprocket. You could easily add the Gin Blossoms and the Replacements to that list, and not skip a beat.

  • You may not know them yet, but chances are, you soon will
    author: Boston Globe

    "The First Time" lives up to the intent of its title. Songs sparkle with a breezy, if deceptively upbeat, aplomb. "Around," for instance, sounds like a celebration until you notice that the song is really about one friend watching another fall prey to drug addiction. Elsewhere, bittersweet tunes like "Northbound Plane" exhibit Lemonpeeler's flair for conjuring the radiant melodies and lived-in vocal harmonies of the Jayhawks, their strongest influence. "Every day here is just like summer," Hayes sings on "Limit On You," as Eddy's electric guitar blazes like the Fourth of July behind him. But summer holidays, like childhood, are fleeting. That this album manages to capture those moments so splendidly is what makes "The First Time" so special.

  • You may not know them yet, but chances are, you soon will...
    author: Boston Globe

    You may not know them yet, but chances are, you soon will. The quartet has just released a striking debut album called "The First Time" on their own imprint, Sissybar Records (available at www.lemonpeeler.com). Songs sparkle with a breezy, if deceptively upbeat, aplomb. "Around," for instance, sounds like a celebration until you notice that the song is really about one friend watching another fall prey to drug addiction. Elsewhere, bittersweet tunes like "Northbound Plane" exhibit Lemonpeeler's flair for conjuring the radiant melodies and lived-in vocal harmonies of the Jayhawks, their strongest influence. "Every day here is just like summer," Hayes sings on "Limit On You," as Eddy's electric guitar blazes like the Fourth of July behind him. But summer holidays, like childhood, are fleeting. That this album manages to capture those moments so splendidly is what makes "The First Time" so special.-

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