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Exene Cervenka
By Flannery Cashill
Published on July 17, 2008
Not all punks age well. Lee Ving left Fear, the band, to star in Clue, the movie. Bad Brains' H.R. got irie and now baffles interviewers with moon-man gibberish. And Henry Rollins continues to jerk himself off with spoken-word albums and a cable talk show.
Among the alumni of U.S. punk's first wave, Exene Cervenka has grown up most gracefully, shirking celebrity in favor of rock and roll, finding her niche as a dive-bar diva and settling down in Jefferson City, Missouri. She has maintained the rag-doll charm and brassy confidence of her X days, and she now tours with her band, the Original Sinners, hitting Davey's Saturday at 9 p.m.
It's rockabilly without kitsch, a pastiche of surf guitars, punk rhythms and romantic but robust vocals that recall the best gin-soaked country crooners.
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