The Jelly Bean Bandits
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Spring - Summer 2008

"ROCK & ROLL IS KEEPING ME ALIVE" CD
FINALLY ARRIVES!

This is the first all-original Jelly Bean Bandits CD since their debut Mainstream LP in 1967 and it's a killer.

Twelve original tracks that continue to reflect their musical diversity and extreme originality.

Southern rock attitude mixed with Sixties San Francisco stylings make Rock & Roll Is Keeping Me Alive a powerhouse anthem for The Jelly Bean Bandits at this point in their career.

Lady In My Past is Latin pop-rock at its finest, and both this and Rock & Roll Is Keeping Me Alive feature the virtuosity, dexterity and imagination of guest guitarist Steve Horrell.

Taylor's Tale is a riff-rock sci-fi tribute to the original "Planet of the Apes".  The song was half-written in 1967 and finished 40 years later. Drummer Joe Scalfari shines with his Ginger Baker / Mitch Mitchell power playings.  The late Charlton Heston appears (uncredited) in the soundtrack.

Country music takes center stage with Simply Amazing and Stranger In My Dreams featuring Jack Dougherty on steel guitar.

Jack is one of the few guitarists who can list his resume credits as both playing hard rock guitar and guesting on Grand Ole Opry playing steel.

There's always one fun track on evey Bandits CD and this one is My Beret which features bassist Fred Buck at his whimsical best in a song that celebrates individuality and insanity in equal measures.

Sxities flavorings of the Yardbirds and the Animals blend with a lyrical vision of today as Internet Queen gives a musical wink and nod to those ladies who make their living on your computer screen.

Crunching percussion, relentless rhythm and razor-sharp lyrics propel This Time The Floods to be a haunting retelling of Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, while ending with the positive chorus of "we will return."

Honoring great musical artists of all genres who have passed on and the influences they left behind that surround all that we do in music now is the essence of Ghosts Around The Piano.

If You Believe is an uplifting song that appears on the soundtrack of the award-winning short documentary, Church of the Good Thief, which was produced by keyboardist Mike Raab.  Guest appearances of vocalists Pam and Shorty Watkins of the Radio Flyer band.

The Jelly Bean Bandits with Patrick Ogelvie of Flux Audio Video, Wilmington, NC (photo above right) discuss the final mixing and production on the CD last October.

Want to sample some tracks from "Rock & Roll Is Keeping Me Alive"?  Visit www.myspace.com/thejellybeanbandits where you can also check out friends, fans and three pages of Bandit photos. 

Want to buy a copy of the new CD?  It's easy - just go to www.cdbaby.com.