1981 NYC Demos--The Midwest Can Be Allright

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Recorded in NYC, six tracks unreleased for 20 years.

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Limited edition reprinting of the 1980 Gizmos Songbook, with lyrics and chords for 25 Gizmos songs and illustrations by Billy Nightshade (R.I.P.). Twenty-eight pages B&W corner stapled, includes the flyer for a November 1980 Gizmos show with Rank And File at Maxwell's in Hoboken.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Live At The Rat 1983, Love Songs 1975-1981, Tentatively Terminal 1977-1978, The Jetsons, Polish Sausage Sauerkraut! A Collection Of Gizmos Covers, The Gizmos EPs 1976-1978, The Gizmos: Raw '76/'77, The Gizmos In New York 1980-81, and 18 more. , and , .

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1.	The Midwest Can Be Allright 02:05	buy track
2.	Hard Hoboken Line 02:26	buy track
3.	See About You 03:05	buy track
4.	Same Old Mountain Music 03:19	buy track
5.	Biscuits & Gravy 02:05	buy track
6.	My Baby Loves Crime 03:14	buy track
7.	Please Panic 01:32	buy track

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Frustrated by perpetual outsider status in Indiana, the Gizmos relocated to New York in 1980, recorded their most ambitious material, and broke up a year later. Cassettes of live shows circulating back in Bloomington would prove to be the group's most lasting legacy, inspiring a generation of Hoosier musicians, including future Blake Babies John Strohm and Freda Love. The somewhat rootsier tinge of the band's New York recordings foreshadowed things to come: Dale Lawrence would go on to front the Vulgar Boatmen, whose repertoire still includes several Gizmos titles ("Heartbeat," "Cry Real Tears," "Tilt-A-Whirl"), while guitarist Tim Carroll established an alt-country presence in Nashville, penning tunes covered by the likes of John Prine and Robbie Fulks.

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released March 4, 2001

Dale Lawrence--guitar, vocals
Robbie Wise--drums
Tim Carroll--guitar
Billy Nightshade--bass

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Thurston "Gizmo" Moore at Sonic Life book signing at Monorail Music, Glasgow, Scotland, November 16, 2023. Photo courtesy Lindsay Hutton.

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