John Burdick -- guitar, songs, keyboards and vocals
Chris Tanis--guitar, songs, ukulele and vocals
Matty Senzatimore--drums
Jason Sarubbi--bass, vocals and recordilating
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Special guests and former members:
Marianne Tasick: live vocals and violin
Johnnie Wang: drums on "Straight Life"
Chelsea Lacatena: Vocals, co-founder emeritus
Influences
The Beatles, The Kinks, Elvis Costello, Stephen Malkmus, The Band, Tom Waits, XTC, Steve Morse, Lowell George, Astor Piazzolla, Randy Newman, Guided By Voices, Velvet Underground, Hot Garbage, The Byrds, Jesca Hoop, Mike Francesa.
New Paltz, New York-based four piece electric rock ensemble now offering tuneful, literate and quirky poprocks, by turns Beatlesque, rootsy, cabaret and raggedy raw. Inquire within.
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"Smart fun for smart people. The Sweet Clementines may pull you into unexpected pop terrain but there's a solid Beatlesque foundation underneath. Now if only all those Williamsburg hipsters would pull their heads
out of there beards and boogie..." -- Ghosty, Sirius Disorder: Channel 70
"These Clementines are the musical equivalent of the small sweet globes for which they are named. Their songs are juicy and bright: lyrically driven, folky, with sonorous pop moments against a rollicking background." --Doug Muller, Ulster Publishing Almanac
"Highly entertaining and musically smart" -- Bob Margolis, The New Paltz Times
"...Wordy...more cryptic than deep...harmless rock ’n’ roll...not a hint of Satan’s thorny tail or bleeding bat heads...Standard fare...a straight-ahead interpretation of tones and their placements in a straight-ahead musical vision...[their] songs would make a high school English student smile knowingly and a hillbilly want to kick someone’s ass." --Jason Broome, Chronogram Magazine, Aug. 25, '08
"Just my kind of music." -- Nora Raleigh Baskin, author of "What Every Girl (except me) Knows" and other novels.
"I listened to it for 13 straight hours. I was stuck on a ladder." -- Amanda, waitress at infamous NP watering hole.
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Hey Sweet Clementines! You guys should start wearing suits - y'know, sort of 19th-century style, a bit of old Mark Twain or Herman Melville action, string ties, pocket handkerchiefs, and what-all...
Hey guys, I'd love to set you up at a coffee shop I'm booking in Beacon. It could be either acoustic or electric, and would be taking place at ZuZu's coffee shop in Beacon. If you are open to the idea, please e-mail me your availability in June and we'll get started! Beacon misses you!
When you guys gonna record that rock opera "Melvil Rising," about Melvil Dewey and how he developed the Dewey Decimal System in 1876 against tremendous adversities?
Mike! if you look real closely on the flier it's all on there. Regardless though we'll be playing tomorrow at Snug's if you feel like coming out we'll be kicking about!
Hey guys, it was a pleasure seeing you last week. You were great, but I gotta know about these electric shows coming up. Keep in touch and if you feel like it we're gonna do the oasis open mic thing on the 2nd of march so maybe we'll see ya there.
Hey guys long time no see. Thanks for all the pleasantries John, Young Love studios were sure to pass them are way. Were going to make it on up to see you tomorrow. Hopefully it's an electric set as I've only seen you acoustic. Open your hearts and let us enter your garage
Randy Newman, how could I forget! He's there now. I sang 'Cowboy' once at a tribute show, and that 1st album is still one of my all time favorite platters. And yes, I have the platter, a wide black one with a hole in the middle.
Thanks to all who came out this past friday night to celebrate Matty's birthday at Oasis! There was a veritable cornucopia of New Paltz talent on display. The Sweet Clementines, the Chris Druthers System, Ratboy, and Matty solo with Johnnie "Rhythm" Wang hitting the skins! Many many beers were consumed as the patrons of Oasis were treated to all Matty, all the time.
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