![]() It’s all there on Track 9, which is called “Hey Jealousy.” Could this band be huge? Could this song be huge? It’s a tough game, sometimes. Thirty years or so later: shows like this one. You imagine yourself as a big-shot record-label stooge, with your feet up on your gold-plated desk, smoking a cigar, with giant stacks of CDs from regional sensations teetering behind you, and you pull Dusted, at random, from one of those stacks, and you pop it in, or you have your assistant pop it in, and you light another cigar, and playacting all this now, you try to imagine if you’d have heard it. The value in that, to my mind, is the chance to play Fantasy A&R Guy. If you really want to hear it in 2020, Dusted is a YouTube proposition, unless you’re the sort of person who’d pay $60 for a used CD. ![]() The Gin Blossoms release their debut album, Dusted, in 1989, recorded locally, released locally, and a pretty big deal locally.
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