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Infobox musical artist| name = Brave Combo| image = Brave Combo 01.jpg| caption = Brave Combo at the Ballard Seafood Fest| background = group_or_band| years_active = Start date|1979–present| origin = Denton, Texas|Denton , Texas | genre = Alternative rock , Polka , Cajun music , Zydeco , Dance music , Latin jazz | label = Four Dots, Rounder, DenTone, Cleveland International| current_members = Carl Finch Jeffrey Barnes Danny O'Brien Alan Emert Little Jack Melody| past_members = Dave Cameron Tim Walsh Lyle Atkinson Bubba Hernandez Joseph Cripps Mitch Marine Paul Stivitts Ann Marie Harrop Arjuna Contreras| website = URL|brave.com/bo/ Brave Combo is a polka / rock and roll|rock band based in Denton, Texas . Founded in 1979 by guitarist / Keyboard instrument|keyboard ist/ accordion ist Carl Finch, they have been a prominent fixture in the Texas music scene for more than twenty-five years. Their music, both originals and covers, incorporates a number of dance (music)|dance style s, mostly polka, but also Rumba (dance)|rumba , cha-cha-cha (music)|cha-cha-cha , choro , samba (music)|samba , two-step, cumbia , charanga , merengue (music)|merengue , etc.
As part of their perceived artistic mission to expand the musical tastes of their listeners, they have often played and recorded covers of well-known songs in a style radically different from the original versions. Examples include polka versions of Jimi Hendrix 's " Purple Haze " and The Doors ' "People are Strange", The Rolling Stones ' " (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction " as a cha-cha, and " Sixteen Tons " as a cumbia. While their records may have a sense of humor, they are played straight and not usually considered joke or novelty record s.
Awards and honors
They won a Grammy Award in 1999 in the Grammy Award for Best Polka Album|Best Polka Album category for their album Polkasonic , and again in 2005 for their album '' Let's Kiss: 25th Anniversary Album|Let's Kiss .
In naming Denton, Texas, the "Best Music Scene" for 2008, Paste (magazine)| Paste magazine cited Brave Combo as the "Grand Pooh-Bah of Denton bands" and said that "Brave Combo, is in many ways the template from which all the rest are cut: eclectic and artistically ambitious, with a high degree of musicianship and a strong DIY ethic."cite news |work=Paste |title=Signs of Life 2008: Best Music Scene - Denton, Texas |url= http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/11/signs-of-life-2008-best-music-scene---denton-texas.html |date=November 21, 2008 |first=Dave |last=Sims
Media appearances
The band made a short appearance, as animated figures, on the March 21, 2004 episode of The Simpsons (" Co-Dependent's Day ").cite news |first=Lucinda |last=Breeding |work=Denton Record-Chronicle |title=Click & Clack add oompah; Brave Combo provides musical nuts and bolts for animated TV series |url= http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/stories/DRC_Brave_Combo_0706.2984932a.html |date=July 7, 2008 |accessdate=July 24, 2008 Series creator Matt Groening is a fan of the band and they appeared on the show at his personal request.cite news |first=Jim Jr. |last=Beal |work=San Antonio Express-News |title=Group gets a, uh, gig on 'Simpsons' |url= http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives? p_product=SAEC& p_theme=saec& p_action=search& p_maxdocs=200& p_topdoc=1& p_text_direct-0=0FF2E65AA42E51C4& p_field_direct-0=document_id& p_perpage=10& p_sort=YMD_date:D& s_trackval=GooglePM |page=18H |date=November 28, 2003cite news |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |title=Music for nuclear (polka) families: Grammy-winning Brave Combo has a new CD |url= http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives? p_product=ST& s_site=dfw& p_multi=ST& p_theme=realcities& p_action=search& p_maxdocs=200& p_topdoc=1& p_text_direct-0=0EAF92B3EEF0430A& p_field_direct-0=document_id& p_perpage=10& p_sort=YMD_date:D& s_trackval=GooglePM |page=L1 |date=January 23, 2001
In that same episode of The Simpsons , the band played a new original song called "Fill The Stein" and their version of " The Simpsons Theme " played over the closing credits . http://www.brave.com/bo/scrapbook/pump/mar04.htm ''Machine's Pump , March 2004
Finch and other band members made cameo appearances in Talking Heads leader David Byrne (musician)|David Byrne 's 1986 movie True Stories (film)|True Stories , set in fictional Virgil, Texas. Finch can be spotted in the fashion show sporting a brick-patterned suit and in the parade leading the all-accordion marching band. (Trivia note: Brave Combo was David Byrne's wedding band.)
They appear in the 1986 Hank Wangford Channel 4 television series The A to Z of C & W singing the HankWilliams song "Cold, Cold Heart".
Their song "Busy Office Rhumba" was used as the theme for the 1993 Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox television series Bakersfield P.D.
They appear as a wedding band in the 1995 feature film Late Bloomers .
In 2000, they appeared on the national telecast of the MDA Labor Day Telethon with Jerry Lewis dancing along to the music. http://www.mdausa.org/telethon/media/pdfs/helpfulinfo/Celebrity%20Appearances.pdf MDA Labor Day Telethon list of celebrity appearances (pdf)
They wrote and performed the theme song for the 2005 series " ESPN Professional Bowlers Association|Bowling Night ".
The opening theme and other music for the 2008 Public Broadcasting Service|PBS animated series '' Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns were produced by Carl Finch and composed, arranged, and performed by Finch and Brave Combo.cite news | first=Roger | last=Catlin | title=Click And Clack Get Their Own Public Television Show | url= http://www.courant.com/entertainment/tv/hc-clickclack.artjul09,0,3836013.story | work=Hartford Courant | date=2008-07-09 | accessdate=2008-07-24
Their live music video, "The Denton Polka", appears on the "Bohemia Rising DVD Compilation" (released in 2009), a collection of documentary shorts directed by Christopher Largen exploring rebellion and resistance to corporate demolition in their hometown of Denton, Texas.
They contributed two songs to the Gumby (album)|Gumby album, released in 1989.
Included in Bob Dylan 's 2009 Christmas release, Christmas In The Heart , the song "Must Be Santa", is performed polka-style. Dylan's arrangement is almost identical to the Brave Combo arrangement from their 1991 CD ''It's Christmas, Man! . In an interview published by Street News Service , Dylan acknowledged the influence of Brave Combo: "This version comes from a band called Brave Combo. Somebody sent their record to us for our radio show. They’re a regional band out of Texas that takes regular songs and changes the way you think about them. You oughta hear their version of "Hey Jude"."cite web| url = http://www.streetnewsservice.org/index.php? page=archive_detail& articleID=4746| title = Bob Dylan Discusses Holiday Music, Christmas and Feeding The Hungry With Bill Flanagan | author = Flanagan, Bill| date = 2009-11-23| accessdate = 2009-11-26| publisher = Street News ServiceDead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot
http://www.archive.org/details/BraveCombo Brave Combo collection at the Internet Archive 's live music archive
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