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The band ripples through the blues with an '80s cool-cat attitude, born of playing punk clubs as well as roadhouses. If you like your blues tongue-in-cheek, there's "Junkyard," about a man who rides around looking for junky artifacts to mold Into "modern art." Or there's "Big Medicine," a playful look at the false bravado of various stimulants. Or the "King of Beers," a more whimsical Sandman tune about drowning sorrows and ending up with "a table of empties." The most likely hit is the title tune, "Tied to the Tracks," a syncopated, acoustic-flavored blues as fast-paced as the train described therein. The band has backed off from the hints of working-class anger on its first album, but there are still a few serious songs poking through the whimsy. "Marie" is about that sinking feeling of letting a lover slip away.

"Why didn't I ask you to marry? I kick myself for never asking you to marry-me," Sandman sings in a deep baritone as Fitting's harmonica bobs and weaves in desolation. There's the even more serious "No Reason," about the random LOEWS LOEWS Gnrl Cinema NICKELODEON HARVARD SQ. BRAINTREE COMJHO iAITH AVI. 10 CHUICM SL CAMIIIOCI SOUTH SHORt PLAZA 4240300 1 1 864-4580 848-1070 General Cinema GENERAL CINEMA LOEWS LOEWS CHESTNUT HILL BURLINGTON MALL SOMERVILLE SALEM III. of HAMMOND ST.

IOUTI 121 IXIT of ASSfMHT SO. RT 92 IAST (NDIA MALL 177-5500 Jl 27a-44l0 618-7000 1 1 74I-IW W-47W By Steve Morse Staff Recent blues revivals have shown a regional flair Texas, blues with the Fabulous Thunder-birds, New Orleans blues with the eville Brothers, bayou blues with Buckwheat Zydeco, and West Coast acidmetal blues with Guns N' Roses. Then there's the all-over-the-map blues of Boston's Treat Her Right. An uncategorizable fixture in Boston clubs, the group has a new album, "Tied to the Tracks" (RCA), due out a week from Tuesday. It's a lively followup to their debut, "Treat Her Right," which shoved them into the national spotlight and featured the hit, "I Think She Likes Me," about finding romance in where else? a cfctb." Treat Her Right excels at a neo-primitive blues that skips across genres, but owes mostly to the early, lowdown Chicago sound of Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters.

That is, there's no piano or bass (guitarist Mark Sandman simulates bass by playing the lower strings of his six-string guitar); and there's a taboo on cluttering or sweetening the sound with unnecessary instrumentation. "We do have an aesthetic: Keep it simple at all costs," Sandman has said. "Resist the temptation to add. If you're going to do something to a song, subtract." Treat Her Right keeps subtracting beautifully on "Tied to the Tracks." The band's key musical parts the darting slide guitar of David Champagne and the powerhouse harmonica of Jim Fitting are again front and cen- APRIL 13- MAY7 ONLY (Northern Boston) Tickets Available at Bostix, Faneuil Hall All Ticketron Outlets or Ticketron Phone Charge (617) 720-3434 Sold Out ASL Interpreting School Vacation Week Matinee Performances SHOW SHOW PAH HMES TIMES Thu April 13 Fri April 14 Sat April IS Sun April 16 Mon April 17 Tue April 18 Wed April 19 Off Thu April 20 Fri April 21 Sat April 22 Sun April 23 Mon April 24 Off Tue April 25 Wed April 26 Thu April 27 Fri April 28 Sat April 29 Sun April 30 Mon May 1 Off Tue May 2 Wed May 3 Thu May 4 Fri May 5 Sat May 6 Sun May 7 CLASSIC '3 DONT MISS THE NEW s' H'' CHASE Sponsor of thai ness of car accidents. In a haunt ing country-blues arrangement, the climactic lyric goes: "There's no reason in this life: Someone nuciot IKM Mi MAKE YOUR VACATION PLANS WITH THE HELP OF THE BOSTON GLOBE'S TRAVEL PAGES DmnbiMBd WHEN VISITING WALT OISNEY WORLD by BUENA VISTA PICTURES DtSTIUBOTION, INC.

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