Chandler Travis

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Genres: Rock Biography Chandler Travis cannot do anything with an entirely straight face; throughout his career, his excursions in bar band, rock & roll, new wave-influenced power pop, and eclectic jazz-influenced big band music have been delivered with a knowing wink and a sly sense of the absurd, yet nothing he's done has ever been merely "funny." He's not a parodist or a comedian, more of an unrepentant smart aleck. In many ways, he's like Massachusetts' answer to R. Stevie Moore. Born and raised in the Cape Cod town of Eastham, MA, Travis got his musical start in the late '60s on the fertile Boston music scene, starting out with a teenage garage band called the Good Fairies, which they changed to the St. James Infirmary once they realized the implications of their original name. In 1969, the guitarist and songwriter met up with Steve Shook, another local musician, and formed Travis Shook and the Club Wow, a loose-knit group that played the Boston clubs for a couple of years before meeting comedian George Carlin, who was so taken with the duo's mixture of rough-edged, R&B-laced rock & roll and increasingly prominent wordplay and musical comedy that he hired them as his opening act, a position they would keep until the early '80s. In that time, the group only recorded one album, 1973's The Essential Travis Shook and the Club Wow, which they released on their own label, the puckishly named Just Like Real Records. The album featured songwriting and playing assistance from

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Another Christmas Gift For You From Sonic Trout Records

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Ivan in Paris

After She Left

Let's Have A Pancake!

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Tarnation And Alastair Sim

You Must Come Over To-night (RadioBall #20)

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Song of the Weak!!!

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Another Christmas Gift For You

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You Must Come Over To-Night Radioball #20

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Eddie G's Screamin' Xmas

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Tarnation And Alastair Sim (Aka 'Kitty')

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