Asheville pop band, THE CHEEKSTERS continue to receive positive press resulting from their tour in support of their recent release, Movers and Shakers.  The band recently received a nice writeup in The Nashville Scene.

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Sounding like reanimated Zombies on their new Movers and Shakers, former Nashville songwriter-frontman Mark Casson and bassist-vocalist Shannon Hines Casson collapse their voluminous record collection into 10 unabashedly groovy songs whose sonic DNA tangles strands of R&B, glam, Britpop and bubblegum. Under multi-instrumentalist bandmate Brent Little’s kitchen-sink-plus production, growling Stevie Wonder clavinet duels with Burt Bacharach flugelhorn (“The Top of the Tree”), burbling “Pale Blue Eyes” guitar does the shimmy with girl-group bounce and hand claps (“Love Hearts in My Eyes”) and Mark Casson’s Ziggy-esque vocals reverberate over Peter Hyrka’s sweeping Moody Blues strings (“Waiting in the Wings”). The effect is ultimately more celebratory than derivative—how could you not love a whistled chorus, whatever its pop provenance?

 Read the full article at The Nashville Scene

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