Biography
Têtes Noires, rooted in Minneapolis, delved into folk-pop across three albums from the mid-1980s, centering on songwriting with a social conscience and lush three-part harmonies that evoked the folk revival period more than thirty years prior, save for one nod to modernity in the form of a drum machine. On Rapunzel Records they issued their self-titled debut in 1983, then issued American Dream the following year. The band next aligned with the folk-oriented Rounder label and brought in Brian Ritchie and Victor DeLorenzo of Midwest heroes the Violent Femmes to produce 1987’s Clay Foot Gods. That release fell short, registering as noticeably more commercial than the prior two LPs.
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