BoDeans

Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams (Slash/Warner Bros./Rhino)

Riding high from last year’s reteaming with T Bone Burnett on Still, Sammy Llanas and Kurt Neumann’s original collaboration with the Texan superproducer on the Wisconsin institution’s 1986 debut gets the deluxe treatment. The original disc, featuring hit “Fadeaway,” is augmented with six demos, but the DVD from a period Minneapolis date with rare tracks proves BoDeans were never “Shattered.” (Friday, April 17, 8:30pm, Hill Country Stage.) ***.5

This article appears in April 17 • 2009.

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