| 3 Too Far attempt plain-spoken light
jangle pop on the order of Gin Blossoms or Josh Kelly, with electric guitars ringing out
simple chords while humble vocals sing of working class frustrations. LeeBo's Kitchen,
the band's CD, is not bad as a demo for a bar band, though their material is threaded with
cliches and sometimes rough-hewn. The guitarists play their parts credibly, and the band
never falls apart, but harmonies sometimes go quite awry and virtually nothing on the
album can be said to be unpredictable...Outside of one slightly surprising sort of
stalker's ode to a TV star, the lyrics mostly roll by unnoticed. The band's only other
remotely memorable story appears on the record's website rather than in the songs, in
lengthy description of the band's Brigadoon-like experience stumbling unexpectedly upon a
bar called LeeBo's Kitchen while in low and fractious spirits on a draining road trip
through the middle of Midwest nowhere. The band planned only to stop for dinner, but
LeeBo's proprietor asked them to a play a concert, leaving them fed and refreshed but
completely baffled as to where they'd been. The band members say they fell asleep the
instant they got in the car to leave, and their driver died soon after, and thus they
wonder to this day where the magical kitchen kingdom might have been. (A quick Google
search, however, unearths a "LeBo's"--spelled with just one "e"--that
seems to fit the description in Anderson Township, Cinncinati, Ohio).
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