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Keep On Cruisin'

by Sloppy Joe and the Cruise

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  • Sloppy Joe and the Cruise - Keep on Cruisin' LP + Rolling Papers + Zine
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    Deluxe Sunset Splatter Vinyl in Silkscreened and Die Cut cover with a package of Keep on Cruising Rolling Papers and small handmade zine compiling the history of the saga of Sloppy Joe.

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After a show in Key West, FL in 2005, Dr. Dog guitarist Doug O'Donnell wandered into a run-down dive bar called Chart Room and ordered a drink. There were only a handful of regulars in the bar, but one of them came over and sat down next to Doug after hearing that he was a touring musician. For the next two hours, this scraggly, bearded man unrolled his own incredible history while Doug unrolled the $5 bills of his touring per diem to keep them both in rum and cokes. The man was “Sloppy” Joe Flappens. In the early to mid-70's, as he told it, Sloppy Joe was one of the kings of the southern Florida beach bar scene. His band, “The Cruise," would pack houses all over the area, years before Jimmy Buffet's “Margaritaville” took the tropical soft rock sound to the top of the charts. Buffett and Flappens worked the same circuit, and, while not exactly friends (there was, according to Joe, “a woman to blame” for this), they occasionally performed together. Sloppy Joe and the Cruise recorded one legendary album in 1975 before disbanding. A tragic accident left Joe unable to play guitar and the completed album was shelved - literally (above Joe's couch, next to his record collection). He spent the ensuing years as a fishing guide, maintaining a laid back lifestyle in obscurity until his death in 2018. At that point Doug (who had become Joe's biggest fan and occasional penpal) received the master tapes in the mail (per Joe's will) and began trying to expose the world to this lost classic.

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released May 20, 2020

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Sloppy Joe and the Cruise Key West, Florida

Sloppy Joe Flappens was a Key West also-ran songwriter that played Key West, recorded one amazing LP, lost three fingers in a boating accident and disappeared from the music scene altogether, running fishing expeditions and generally doing the least he could. When he died in 2018, this classic LP resurfaced due to his chance encounter and long distance friendship with Doug O'Donnell from Dr. Dog. ... more

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