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"EMPOWERED" BY THE WORK OF SUCH EARLY NINETIES "LO-FI" (A RELATIVE TERM...) BANDS AS ROYAL TRUX, PAVEMENT, SEBADOH, GUIDED BY VOICES, THE SILVER JEWS, BEAT HAPPENING, ETC., PATRICK TOTTENHAM DECIDED "HEY--YES I CAN!" AND SO HE DID...

THE FLEECE STARTED AS PATRICK, A GUITAR, A VOICE (NOT QUITE), AND A BROKEN TAPE RECORDER IN UNION PARK, FL. AFTER MOVING BACK TO CAPE COD, PATRICK FELL IN WITH A VERY TALENTED BUNCH OF ROCK STARS (MEMBERS OF CHEESEWHEEL, NO SIENTO, THE EVIL U.P.S. MEN, AND THE SKIVIES...). INSPIRED BY THESE TALENTED AND GENEROUS PEOPLE, PATRICK BEGAN RELEASING CASSETTES ON TEAGOWN RECORDS (THANKS TEAGOWN!).

WELL, KIDS, THINGS HAVE A WAY OF EVOLVING, AND TIME HAS ITS WAY WITH YA...AND--PRESTO! NEARLY TEN YEARS OF THE FLEECE (GOOD GOD!! WHY!?). THE FLEECE BECAME A BAND WITH THE HELP OF SOME OF THE ABOVE-MENTIONED ROCKERS, BROKE AND BECAME A SOLO ACT AGAIN, REFORMED AGAIN WITH A STRING SECTION (CONSISTING ENTIRELY OF THE TALENTED AND LOVELY MS. SARAH PARKINGTON.), LOST THE VIOLIN AND GAINED A SECOND GUITAR, AND THEN FINALLY ENDED AS A WORLD-CLASS POWER TRIO...(OR DID IT?)

TEAGOWN RECORDS WILL RELEASE A RETROSPECTIVE OF THE FLEECE ON CD...EVENTUALLY? (ha.) MORE DETAILS AS THEY EMERGE...THANKS FOR CHECKING US OUT.