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If It Makes You Happy: The Revelers are never going to be a pop band

April 24, 2017 by: Dan Willging

THE REVELERS: SUNDAY, APRIL 30—FAIS DO-DO STAGE, 2:50 P.M.

 

Legend has it that the Revelers began when the ghost of C.C. Adcock appeared to drummer Glenn Fields in the midst of a yoga session and announced there was room for yet another, albeit younger, swamp pop band on the scene. That same night in 2010, Dewey Balfa appeared to accordionist Blake Miller in a dream and informed him that he would be a torch-bearer for generations ...

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