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From the Single Desperately Wanting

From the Album 1. King Of New Orleans 2. Rewind 3. Long Lost 4. Normal Town 5. Scared Are You? 6. Return Of The Post Moderns 7. Hung The Moon 8. Desperately Wanting 9. Still Life With Cooley 10. WWOZ 11. Happy Endings 12. Speeding Up To Slow Down

From the Album 1. In The Blood 2. Good 3. Southern Gurl 4. The Killer Inside 5. Rosealia 6. Cry In The Sun 7. Teenager 8. Summerhouse 9. Porcelain 10. Heaven 11. This Time Of Year

From the Single Good

Other Songs A Southern Thing Absolutely Still All In Allison Foley American Dream An Untitled Instrumental And Were Fine At The Stars Bag Of Cobras Beautiful Mistake Before You Black Light Breathless Briefly Burned Burning The Map CDU Circle of Friends Closer Cold Year Coyote Crazy Lucky Daylight Devil Girl Diamond In My Pocket Dollar $ign Dollar Sign Everything In 2s Extra Ordinary Ezra Pound Falling Apart Favorite Blanket Fit Fuzzy Get You In Gonna Get Better Grateful Happy Day Mama Hell No! Hey Love Hold Me Down Hollow I Do I Fly Away I Just Knew Insane Intro Its Only Natural Je Ne Men Souviens Pas Juarez Juicy Just One Day Killing It Laid Like It Like That Live A Little Live Again Mercy Merry Christmas Eve Misunderstood Mr. Greaves New Kind Of Low Nightclubbing Oh Corrina One Heart Beating One More Murder Our Finest Year Our Last Night Overcome Particle Pull Rarely Spoken Rearranging The Bones Recognize Rolling Silly Fool Sincerely Me Special Stall State Street State Of Mind Strange Funny Way Sunflowers The Great Unknown The Loveless This Time Tremble Turn Up The Bright Lights Under You Use Me Wallflower Waxing Or Waning? Wintercoats Wounded
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Better Than Ezra was formed in 1988 by its four original members – vocalist and guitarist Kevin Griffin;
Joel Rundell, the lead guitarist; bassist Tom Drummond; and drummer, Cary Bonnecaze.
All four members were attending Louisiana State University at the time.

-Wikipedia
Members:
Kevin Griffin - lead vocals, guitar
(1988-present)

Tom Drummond - bass guitar, backing vocals
(1988-present)

Michael Jerome - drums
(2009-present)

James Arthur Payne - guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
(1997-present) [Touring Member]
Name Origin:
The band has yet to disclose the origin of their name. One theory is that it comes from a line in Ernest Hemingway's memoir "A Moveable Feast", in which Hemingway describes a particularlyannoying sound as "...no worse than other noises, certainly better than Ezra learning to play the bassoon."
From: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Genre(s): Alternative rock, Post-grunge
Active From: 1988-present
Did You Know:
• Fans of the group often refer to themselves as Ezralites

• The first track of their 1990 release Surprise is called Ezra Pound.

• Kevin Michael Griffin has co-written all the songs

• Cary Bonnecaze became interested in drums at the age of 3 or 4, and taught himself to play
Quotes:
We had been writing songs for a year before we made Surprise. Then three years went by and many things happened to us personally, so the next record would naturally sound different. And it was good to come from a Southern rock band that mainly played in the South, and then go out west and meet somebody froma completely different background and have them come in. Out there, people are always saying that you either "get it" or you don't "get it". Well, Dan got it.
Kevin Griffin

My mom heard the song and said it makes me sound like I had a horrible childhood, which I didn't, I had a really normal childhood. When we were out in L.A., there's always people you know who on the fringe or came froma broken home, where they were never shown that they had any self worth. People tend to go out on those fringes.
Kevin Griffin (about the song "Teenager")

I was riding a mountain bike up in the Hollywood hills, and came down and started singing it. Cary came up with the harmony on top of the chorus, which is very important for the song.
Kevin Griffin (about the song "Porcelian)

"We had our own Internet site, and we found out it was just lame compared to the fans' [sites], So we got rid of ours, and we're putting together one that's just amazing. It's going to be an award-winning, state-of-the-art Web page. It's really staggering."
Kevin Griffin

"It's great as far as the Internet goes because information travels so quickly, and I don't think it's ever going to threaten print media, but it's certainly made people in print media"
Kevin Griffin


When I was little, I used to wish that my dad would bring Kiss home from work, like on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" when famous people would come home with the dad.
Cary
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