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Applying the polka and world-music dance treatment to a most unlikely song lineup ("People Are Strange," "Sixteen Tons," "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," "O Holy Night"), Brave Combo formed in the late '70s in the small Texas hometown of vocalist and guitarist Carl Finch, recorded three albums for the self-owned Four Dots label, and later moved to Rounder. The group's line-up, though constantly shifting, began to coalesce around <a href="spotify:artist:2yFlTIoHQhVitMFLxq01Po">Finch</a>, horn player Jeffrey Barnes, bassist <a href="spotify:artist:4uCUFQE4EVKkJpEJxSztjc">Bubba Hernandez</a>, and either Mitch Marine or Joseph Cripps on percussion. After signing with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Rounder%22">Rounder</a> in the late '80s, Brave Combo released the 1987 compilation Musical Varieties before recording nine albums with the label by the mid-'90s. The group also backed up pop figure <a href="spotify:artist:0Nc79lkTxXLSIIHDB8mqJC">Tiny Tim</a> on his last collection of songs, 1996's Girl. Polkasonic followed three years later, and in the spring of 2000 Brave Combo resurfaced with Process. After recording a live album for Cleveland International (Kick-Ass Polkas, 2001), in 2003 they returned to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Rounder%22">Rounder</a> for Box of Ghosts, a collection of classical themes dressed up Brave Combo style. Among various other recording and performing activities during the 21st century, the band also appeared on avant accordionist extraordinaire <a href="spotify:artist:50mFgMH4q8f1c15dCjg0fd">Guy Klucevsek</a>'s The Multiple Personality Reunion Tour in 2012. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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