Soft rock’s seminal band, The Blue Jean Committee originated from blue-collar Chicago when the now legendary Clark Honus (Bill Hader) and Gene Allen (Fred

Armisen) dropped out of sausage school to create the band of their dreams. With the help of famed music manager Alvin Izoff, the band reinvented their hard Chicago-blues image to instead transcend the laid-back essence of California.

Their debut album Catalina Breeze spawned six consecutive hit  singles for the band and for a moment it seemed like they would be a long term fixture on the American musical landscape. However, some relationships are more complicated than they appear on the surface and nowhere did this ring more true than for Allen and Honus, as their infamous on-stage fight at the Hollywood Bowl Animal Rights Now  benefit and subsequent break-up has since become the stuff of legend.

Now, though, fans of “the Chicago band with the California sound” can celebrate once more. After over 30 years apart, Gene and Clark were recently reunited for their induction into the Hall Of Fame in April 2015. Subsequently, they went on to play their first public performance together in over three decades on Late Night With Seth Meyers in August of 2015, and are now re-releasing the Catalina Breeze album.

Vinyl LP.

Tracklist:

Catalina Breeze

Freeway Song

Gentle And Soft

Going Out To

Hollywood

Mama You’re A Dancer

Mr. Fix It

Walking Shoes

Barcode: 0781484064510                     

Catalogue Number: DC645

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