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Genres
  
Labels
  
Twin/Tone

Genre
  
Post-punk

Years active
  
Early 1980s–1988

Active until
  
1988

Record label
  
Twin/Tone Records

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Past members
  
Steve KramerErik AndersonJim CliffordRod GordonMax Ray

Origin
  
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Albums
  
17 Songs, Body Talk, Take It

Similar
  
Steve Kramer, The Suburbs, Dave "Snaker" Ray, The Suicide Commandos, Trip Shakespeare

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The Wallets were a band from the Twin Cities, who recorded on the local Twin/Tone Records label in the 1980s.

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History

The Wallets were founded as an experimental group by accordionist Steve Kramer and managed by Bob Hest.

The Allen Toussaint-produced debut album Take It was released in 1986, described by SPIN as urban soul and funk with "a Cajun smell to their work". The album saw the band described as "art rockers who not only want to groove but know how to groove".

Kramer decided to retire the band in Spring 1988, but waited until their final album, Body Talk, was released before announcing the split. The Wallets performed their final show at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis on January 23, 1989.

Kramer and Hest later formed an advertising agency, currently known as Hest & Kramer, Van House Weber, noted for its use of music in television ads for clients such as Target Stores, MTV, Time Warner, and Buick.

Kramer died in January 2013 at age 59.

Musical style

The Star-Tribune summed the band's style up as a "mix of polka, rock, rhythm-and-blues, jazz and whimsy".

Awards

The band received several Minnesota Music Awards ("Minnies"), with ten nominations in 1987.

Albums

  • Take It (1986), Twin/Tone
  • Body Talk (1988), Twin/Tone
  • 17 Songs (1989), Twin/Tone
  • EPs

  • Catch a Falling Star (1983), Spiffola 333
  • Singles

  • "Night Before Christmas" (1983)
  • "Totally Nude" (1986)
  • Songs

    The Beat Is UpBody Talk · 1988
    AfumatoBody Talk · 1988
    FeelBody Talk · 1988

    References

    The Wallets Wikipedia


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