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Founded 1979, based in Denton, TX
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Brave Combo

Brave Combo


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Band History

Brave Combo. Rarely, if ever, has a band name been more apropos, not only at the group's inception, but even more so 26 years after the fact. At first glance, back in 1979, the Denton, Texas, based outfit was, in shorthand, pegged as a New Wave polka band, a courageous if not almost oxymoronic endeavor during that particular rebirth of the cool. Yet it clicked and launched a stunning run that has now catapulted it into the new century.

Over the years, Brave Combo has collected a dizzying array of descriptive musical pegs, boldly going where few bands have gone before, and even fewer could (or would) dare to venture. Succeeding in its first mission, Brave Combo is America's premier contemporary polka band, and a Grammy winning one at that. In the same breath, to name some but hardly all of the colors found on Brave Combo's musical palette, one can describe them as a groundbreaking world music act, a hot jazz quintet, a rollicking rock'n'roll bar band, a Tex-Mex conjunto, a sizzling blues band, a saucy cocktail combo, a deadly serious novelty act, a Latin orchestra, and one of America's dance bands par excellence. It's all in a night's music for Brave Combo, often in a synergistic fashion that includes everything from klezmer surf rock to rocking cha cha to what The Washington Post calls "mosh pit polka," as well as to the hokey pokey and the chicken dance. And zyedeco, acid rock, Muzak, bubblegum, cumbia, classical, and the twist, to still not exhaust the list. This plethoric multitude of musical styles and flavors is frequently mixed, matched, and melded, into delicious, new concoctions by an imaginative team of musical gourmet master chefs.

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Albums by this artist

Musical Varieties album cover Musical Varieties Released 1990
Polkatharsis album cover Polkatharsis Released 1990
Night on Earth album cover A Night on Earth Released 1992
Humansville album cover Humansville Released 1992
The Hokey Pokey album cover The Hokey Pokey Released 1994
Kiss of Fire album cover Kiss of Fire Released 1996
Mood Swing Music album cover Mood Swing Music Released 1996
Girl (w/ Tiny Tim) album cover Girl (w/ Tiny Tim) Released 1996
Polka Party album cover Polka Party Released 1998
Polkasonic album cover Polkasonic Released 1999
The Process album cover The Process Released 2000
Box of Ghosts album cover Box of Ghosts Released 2003
Let's Kiss album cover Let's Kiss Released 2004
Holidays! album cover Holidays! Released 2005
Polka's Revenge album cover Polka's Revenge Released 2007


alexandriav9, anonymous:

Check out Brave Combo on Sarah Hickman’s new cd “Best of Times”. The album also features Willie Nelson and Robert Earl Keen and is now available on iTunes. www.bestoftimescd.com

1 year, 8 months ago
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