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The Kingdom of Heaven: It's time you knew Powell St. John

Bill Bentley, Austin Chronicle, 22 December 2006

THE BAND'S been playing at least an hour, but it feels like five minutes. Besides 'You Really Got Me', 'Roll Over Beethoven' and Bob Dylan's 'She Belongs to Me', they've done a dozen originals that seem like the beginning of a new age. There's one called 'Roller Coaster' that sends shivers through the audience of 50, massed together at La Maison on the edge of downtown Houston.

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