The Bootheels

The Bootheels were a premature supergroup. They were four high school age kids who were essentially unknown outside their neighborhood during their brief existence in the late 1980s, but a few years later, the former members would be working with the Wallflowers, Moby, Lana Del Rey, the Freewheelers, and Those Pretty Wrongs. Playing scrappy garage rock clearly informed by the Replacements, their music was fueled by adolescent angst and nervy energy, but they already knew how to write songs, and the talent that would lead the musicians to stardom is audible in their surviving r...