Deal

One of the countless number of power pop bands to emerge on the American music scene in the late 1970s and early '80s, Charlottesville, VA's the Deal were one of the most unlucky of these bands, and until 2003, their music was almost completely obscure and unheard. The Deal formed in 1979 at the University of Virginia when guitarist Haines Fullerton happened upon a show by acoustic duo of singer/songwriter Mark Roebuck and guitarist Eric Schwartz and was knocked out by their sound and songs. Fullerton, who grew up in Memphis, was inspired by Memphis-based power pop legends B...