The amazing Philly-based acoustic folk-rock band that featured the gorgeous vocals of Eden Daniels, Chris Unrath on guitar, Dean (Clean) Sabatino of the Dead Milkmen on drums, and the incomparable Andy Bresnan on the Ukranian Burda - a three string bass instrument that looked like a cross between a cello and a Noguchi coffee table. Baby Flamehead released one great album in 1990 on Texas Hotel Records called Life Sandwich and squeezed out one tour
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The amazing Philly-based acoustic folk-rock band that featured the gorgeous vocals of Eden Daniels, Chris Unrath on guitar, Dean (Clean) Sabatino of the Dead Milkmen on drums, and the incomparable Andy Bresnan on the Ukranian Burda - a three string bass instrument that looked like a cross between a cello and a Noguchi coffee table. Baby Flamehead released one great album in 1990 on Texas Hotel Records called Life Sandwich and squeezed out one tour before Bresnan's departure (Burda slung over his shoulder) and Dean's Milkmen obligations put the band into several years of low gear. During the Flamehead tour Eden and Chris forged a friendship with Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven that survives to this day.
But as happens in so many bands where romantic and musical affairs are intertwined, Eden and Daves relationship came to an end and the decision was made to discontinue The Shimmers. Only the Christmas song Coal was ever released on the Seasons Greetings Philadelphia Compilation (Record Cellar Productions).
In 2004 Chris Unrath moved his Eadrumland Studio and came across The Shimmers master tapes. He circulated rough mixes of most of the songs that make up The Way You Shine and Jonathan Segel posted them on his private website for friends to hear. The positive reactions to these beautiful songs led to the decision to finish and release the album. New songs were recorded and extra instrumentation was added to many others before final mixing. The result is the engaging Americana-tinged folk-rock record that is The Way You Shine.
The Shimmers will be reforming to play selected east-coast and festival/convention dates in the fall of 2006 and spring of 2007.
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