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February 12, 2004

This Week:

Friday, February 13, LUNCH TIME 12:30
Borders Instore at Borders Downtown Crossing in Boston, MA!!!

Address: 10 - 24 School Street Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 557-7188

Tuesday, February 17, 9:00am WFUV RADIO Live Interview
Tune in your radios to 90.7 FM in New York City (or computers at wfuv.org) and listen to Nerissa & Katryna while you drink your morning coffee.

... and of course there are shows galore, starting at Joe's Pub (with the Crackerjack Band!) that evening. Check the tour page for complete info!

A Message From The Crackerjack Band

Hi Fans of Nerissa & Katryna Nields and the Crackerjack Band,

We thought you'd like to hear about our earliest influences, so you'd be reassured about our cred. Mine was Leo Sayer's "When I Need You," an edgy, high energy love ballad in which he overdubbed his own voice not once not twice but three times! I was nine and it was 1977. Katryna's, bought the same day was "Southern Nights" by Glenn Campbell. We bought these 45s from Drug Fair in McLean Virginia, right around the corner from the Alka Seltzer and Hallmark cards. They cost $0.99 each, which is still the price of a single if you go online to Apple.com and download something for your iTunes program, which I do.

My first single was a song by the Jackson Five. I haven't been able to remember the title for years. If there is a Jackson's song called Entertainment, then that's it. I also had a Bay City Rollers 45 (Saturday Night). I saw them on Wonderama and flipped out. —Dave Hower

First single I bought was Zeppelin's WholeLottaLove - it had a hole punched through it (cut-out style) so it was 39 cents!  Of course I had to crank the record machine a few extra times 'cos it's the whole album version (no edit!) - the middle section would scare me silly with the lights out then...BAM.BAM! that guitar break would deliver me every time. (It would also scare the pterodactyls away, too) —Paul Kochanski, bass player extraordinaire

Dave Chalfant could not be reached for comment. But I know for a fact that he was frightened by a song from Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced" and experienced it as a stampede of giant ants.