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From polka to Punk Ballads New music from Shawndell Marks, Mike Schneider Band and more Singer-keyboardist Shawndell Marks has most often recorded music in a band context, both for her solo albums and as a member of Gin, Chocolate and Bottle Rockets, Gold Dust Women, and various other groups. A notable exception to that is her 2020 Madison Area Music Award winning album Keys to Unlock Your Dreams, a collection of original instrumental solo piano pieces. She revisits the solo approach in a much different way for the new EP Punk Ballads, a collection of covers of songs by 1960s-1980s-era rock groups. The original records â by Black Flag, The Buzzcocks, The Cure, The Equals, Love and Rockets, and Ramones â are generally up-tempo, brash, guitar-based songs, so Marks spare and smoky recastings give each tune an arresting new personality. The EP was recorded live to cassette at various public locations around Sauk County that would normally be busy, b ....