February 24-March 3, 2005
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Joe Lapinski has been a fixture in the local music scene for many years. I remember him carrying his guitar around in high school-a decade ago-sort of like the Ritchie Vallens of Niagara. He'd bust out a song or two at a session in a south end garage, sing and play a tune while sitting atop the escarpment by the Decew electrical generating tubes, or provide the soundtrack for a crackling bonfire at Municipal Beach. Back then, everyone played guitar. The thing about Joe's licks was they were always appropriate and always good; they hit the spot like that very last can of warm beer. Lapinski kept on with his music and, after years of working with a number of different combinations and in varying capacities, he's just released his first solo album, Here Are The Postcards I Forgot To Send You on his own Yummy Recordings imprint.