July 24th, 2012
Noah Bonaparte Pais on the band that’s playing the CIrcle Bar July 26
Origin stories don’t get more original than the Mynabirds’. It involves two former lives: one directly related, as in Laura Burhenn’s previous band, the Washington, D.C., pop duo Georgie James; and one Shirley MacLained, the 1960s Motown not-so-supergroup The Mynah Birds, whose rotation included Buffalo Springfield’s Neil Young and Bruce Palmer and Steppenwolf’s Nick St. Nicholas and Goldy McJohn, and whose only recording was abandoned when its singer — one Rick James, 15 years pre-“Super Freak”-out — was arrested for going
AWOL on the U.S. Navy.…
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