Les Shelleys

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The Shelleys are the Southern California duo of Tom Brosseau and Angela Correa. Les Shelleys are an acoustic guitar/vocal duo from Los Angeles, consisting of FatCat’s folk asset Tom Brosseau and his singing partner Angela Correa, better known as the indie-pop singer/songwriter Correatown. Their debut album together, is a collection of tracks taken from a vast body of recorded works – beautiful, harmony-heavy voice and guitar arrangements of American standards and folk traditionals from various points of the last century. Introduced and encouraged in 2002 by California-based songwriter/film-maker Gregory Page, Brosseau and Correa began with a repertoire of Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Sister Tharpe. There is an undeniable timelessness to Tom and Angela’s work here – something we have seen before in Tom Brosseau’s FatCat releases under his own name (three full length albums and a handful of singles) – a gracious and praising nod to the frankness and honesty of the great folk songwriters whose work they recount. By eschewing textual complexity in favour of a simple acoustic guitar and voice combination, Tom and Angela allow a focus on the purity and sweetness of their intermixed voices. Tapping into those inherently romantic and tender qualities of vocal harmonies that serve pop and folk music so well, an instantly likeable, charming personality is given to a time-tested songbook. Tom was born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota and now resides in LA. He comes from a famil

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Les Shelleys

Les Shelleys (Bonus Track Version)

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IndieFeed: Indie Pop Music

The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise

Daytrotter Studio 11/5/2010

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Daytrotter Session

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IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler 2010

Rum and Coca Cola / Green Door

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The Fatcat Records Podcast

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New

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Rum and Coca Cola / Green Door - Single

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Vol. 2

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