Watch the lyric video for the first single, "Circle Of Friends" on YouTube: http://youtu.be/l7EyZxRmFbY. It is also available for download on iTunes & Amazon.
Newly re-mastered, Surprise is the only Better Than Ezra album to feature all four original
members -- Kevin Griffin (vocals, guitar), Joel Rundell (guitar), Tom
Drummond (bass) and Cary Bonnecaze (drums).
Better
Than Ezra formed in 1988 by Kevin Griffin and Cary Bonnecaze while
attending LSU in Baton Rouge. With the addition of Joel Rundell and Tom
Drummond, they moved into a house together and began focusing on
writing their own songs which they would perform live and ultimately
release on their debut studio album.
Cary recounts, "We recorded Surprise in a garage studio (literally) during the evenings and after classes, in the course of five days. Once
we had the cassettes made, we approached a local record store off the
LSU campus to sell the album and within days it became their biggest
selling album. We played bars and frat shows throughout the Southeast
and sold Surprise wherever we could. Things seemed to be going well. Little did we know that within that year our world would change forever.”
On
August 8, 1990, after playing a show at Murphy's Bar in Baton Rouge,
Joel unexpectedly passed away. There is nothing like losing someone who
you genuinely love and care for. It wasn't ‘like’ losing a brother, we
did lose a brother. This 25th Anniversary release is dedicated to Joel.”
Continuing as a trio, Better Than Ezra released their second album, Deluxe, in 1993 on Swell Records. In 1995, Elektra Records re-released it and the single, "Good,” which helped push the album to platinum status by the end of 1995.
As Surprise celebrates its 25th anniversary, Better Than Ezra has gone on to scan nearly two million albums in the United States.
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