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American Music Club

A cult hero of the US indie scene, Mark Eitzel's melancholy songwriting and love of rootsy country rock made American Music Club natural outsiders as a wave of alternative bands such as REM, Flaming Lips and The Lemonheads started to break through in the mid 1980s. Born into a military family, Eitzel lived in Taiwan, Britain and Ohio and played in punk bands before moving to San Francisco in 1982 to start AMC with guitarist Vudi and bassist Danny Pearson in 1982. Adopting the persona of a doomed romantic, hard-drinking crooner, Eitzel received critical acclaim for early albums Th...