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		On their latest CD, Goodnite, America's favorite "band-that-won't-quit", Walt Mink, lets us eavesdrop on an 11/1/97 live set at the Mercury Lounge, NYC. The great mixture of a live album and a band that sounds great live isn't lost on me here. I suspect that WM's studio sessions aren't as pyrotechnic as this! The energy exploding from Goodnite's jewel box comes from Walt Mink's stadium rock bigness being boxed into a smaller-than-stadium capacity venue. Ladies and gentlemen, this is bombastic yet sublime rock music at its best! Goodnite also serves as a nice retrospective, spanning the musical life of the band's last ten years. College radio-heads will surely find things on here that bring back the memories -- "Miss Happiness", for example, is performed here with reckless abandon! For big, bad indie rock that still means indie rock, look no further than Walt Mink!
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Walt Mink Goodnite Deep Elm CD
		Review by Noah Wane

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