Jon Fox – Vox, Guitar
Paul McDaniel – Guitar, Vox
Jim Santo – Bass, Vox
Peter Gottovi – Drums
The Behoovers isn't the youngest band in the world (the four guys are in their thirties and forties), and we all know rock and roll is typically a youthful idiom. But an advantage to the band's seasoning is that it enables the members to draw knowledgably on about fifty years of rock and roll influences (primary ones including Johnny Cash, The Kinks, New York Dolls, Angry Samoans, The Pixies, Weezer and Rancid).
Three Behoovers used to play together in a pop-punk band called The Cogs. (The fourth member, Jim Santo, was a neighborhood friend since his days in Jenifer Convertible and now does double-duty with The Sharp Things.)
Behoovers vocalist Jon Fox used to be married to The Cogs' lead singer and when the marriage broke up, so did that band. Thankfully, this tumultuous experience and its aftermath inspired a bucket of songs tackling grown-up issues and ideas with varying dollops of sadness, defiance, and humor.
The fallout is a fourteen-song CD — That's Right! — that successfully intertwines the mysterious power of real rock and roll, with the genuine thoughts, insights and emotions of people who've been around the block once or twice.
The bulk of the songs were written shortly after September 11, 2001 and the disc was recorded in a former fire station in Providence Rhode Island. In one way or another, a primary theme here is loss. But there's a strong undercurrent of hope and redemption, too.
Hopefully, instead of slitting their wrists, listeners will be inspired to pick up their own guitar, go out and see a rock show, or tell a good joke to a friend.
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