Unless you're in a plaster cast you are sure to be on your feet for this one. The spirited all-instrumental song stylings of Saint Louis' Civil Tones are perfect for dancing!

The Rotisserie Twist is their hi-fidelity, long playing debut, and is offered here with all the dynamic range, clarity and brilliance of living stereo! This is music that lives! It's vital and surprising and full of unexpected pretty phrases and biting rhythms. It's what young people of all ages want to hear today because it's gone today!

New instrumental groups abound in this post-Pulp Fiction era; most strive to capture the sounds of 10960s surF guitar rock. While they are no strangers to this style, the Civil Tones ~or The Civil Tones of Heartbreak, to use their proper, unable to fit on a marquee name) instead embrace the organ and guitar sound of Memphis and the Southwest from the same period. Making good use of the vintage equipment they possess, including a Guild Starfire hollowbody and a Leslie-driven Farfisa organ, the Civil Tones have quickly risen to prominence in the city that is "The Gateway to the West!"

"This swinging combo has their focus on simplicity of melody, and a mighty concentration on groove...These guys are certainly onto something and are well worth catching."
-- David Surkamp - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"...A post-punk, tongue-in-cheek version of Booker T. and the M.G.s (the band) offers a unique range of spooky-cheesy freak show music to 70s sitcom funk that gets better, tighter and groovier every time it plays out."
-- Richard Newman - Riverfront Times

"The Civil Tones...have been known to turn simple little garage/soul numbers into things of transcendent beauty..."
-- Steve Pick- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Available on super-sharp CD