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First Listen: Low Cut Connie, 'Dirty Pictures (Part 2)'

Low Cut Connie still makes full-bodied, red-blooded rock and roll, but offers a bit more nuance to its wild boogie.
Low Cut Connie's <em>Dirty Pictures (Part 2) </em>comes out May 18.

Across five albums of piano-driven rock and soul, has proven masterfully fluent in the foundational languages of Western pop, living at the crossroads where the church house meets the roadhouse, or where the Dew Drop Inn meets CBGB. They're revivalists, but definitely not re-enactors: You can hear the traces of and nods to the wildfire boogie of Little Richard and or the big piano balladeering of and (the latter of whom gave the group a hearty endorsement in 2017). The blood that pumps through the Philadelphia band's work

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