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Boz Metzdorf
12+ albums
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Boz Metzdorf’s album Signs of Seasons, a cosmic folk ode to and from America’s heartland at the turn of another century, is given new space for its enduring charisma with a first ever digital reissue on Anthology Recordings. Robert “Boz” Metzdorf — aka Biz Mitzwah, the art design sobriquet he used in the credits for Signs of Seasons— arrived at the tail end of World War II in Norfolk, Virginia to a naval officer father and a mother entranced by radio’s golden age of sound. After Boz’s family relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota in the early ‘60s, Metzdorf fell under the spell of radio mainstays like The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, and Gene Vincent, and soon after picked up his first six-string. In 1964, Metzdorf formed The Missing Lynx, his first teenage garage band. After a line up unique to the period which included both a female lead guitarist and bassist, Steve Keys and Doug Rymerson eventually became full-fledged members in 1966. Metzdorf, Keys and Rymerson eventually completed the Minnesota-based, six piece, folk-country combo Freeland, known for their privately-issued Headin’ Back album on Moonchild Records from 1972. Following the dissolution of Freeland in 1976, Metzdorf began playing with some of his ex-bandmates in Bizzy Wiggins, a collaborative setting in which Signs of Seasons took form from a song catalog Metzdorf had been crafting 1967. The self-financed sessions for Signs of Seasons commenced in winter of 1977 at Sullivan Sound Recording in St. Paul, runni
