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2 years ago DENNIS BRENNAN asked Berlin to be a guest performer at his popular residency at the Lizard Lounge, Cambridge. The deal: the Brennan band learns 2 Berlin songs in the dressing room 5 minutes before they hit the stage. The results astonished. The songs came alive with unimaginable beauty + guts. The players, among the tops in this town or anywhere else (see stats on CD), brought off-the-cuff brilliance, improvisation + restraint to songs Berlin had only played solo. He was so inspired that night that he decided his next recording would feature these guys + would have, for the first time in years, a full backing band - a band that moves the music to a higher place without losing the soul nerve of his solo work (see "ME & VAN GOGH" + "OLD STAG").