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England’s mighty Blue Aeroplanes landed on SNAP in July 1990 for an electric full-band session favoring songs from their American major-label debut, “Swagger.”

Outside the confines of a traditional studio, the band bursts forward with a tightly-wound sound that perfectly underpins vocalist Gerard Langley’s spoken proclamations.

Rising out of the late, lamented Athens band Oh-OK, Hetch Hetchy is a name true heads know. The duo of Lynda L. Limner and Jay Totty produced gloriously oblique music which occupied its own uniquely art-damaged space.

Swelling their ranks to a sextet onstage, they floated into the SNAP studio on May 31, 1990, in support of their sole full-length album, “Swollen.”

One of the leading lights of New Zealand’s “Dunedin sound,” Martin Phillipps and The Chills landed on SNAP in May 1990.

The band’s 11th incarnation stopped by to promote their album “Submarine Bells.” Their set includes a heavy dose of that record and a generous selection of earlier classics.

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Irish singer-songwriter Luka Bloom moved to the USA, adopted a new name, and began chronicling his experiences in song as an expatriate living in New York.

In April 1990, the man formerly known as Barry Moore sat in with Deirdre for an hour around the release of his US debut, “Riverside.”

Legendary English songwriter Nick Lowe brings his “Party of One” to SNAP in February 1990 for a solo acoustic showcase of that album.

Nick and Deirdre also enjoy a wide-ranging chat about his 21st anniversary as a career musician; the joys of Tone Loc and the agonies of Rick Astley; and the state of record production at the turn of the decade.

Cowboy Junkies return for a second SNAP session in February 1990. Newly expanded into an octet, the band’s set includes songs from their first three records, plus a few others slated for a future album.

Deirdre also chats extensively with singer Margo Timmins.

Beloved Athens, GA stalwarts Love Tractor stopped by SNAP for their second session in January 1990.

Their career-spanning set ranges from 1983’s “Around the Bend” to 1988’s “Themes from Venus,” and also includes a few as-yet-unnamed new tracks.

A veteran of the “fast folk” movement of the early ‘80s, singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin chanced into a gig as Suzanne Vega ’s backup singer before signing to Columbia as a solo artist.

Her solo acoustic appearance on SNAP coincided with the release of her 1989 debut album, “Steady On.”

Led by vocalist/human tornado Hope Nicholls, North Carolina’s Fetchin Bones regularly conjured enough onstage electricity to power Santa Monica.

They plugged into Deirdre’s grid for a second time in October 1989, bringing their adrenaline-soaked rock’n’roll back to the SNAP studio in support of their fifth (and final) album, “Monster.”

Camper Van Beethoven returned for their second and final appearance on “SNAP” while touring behind their ostensible swan song, 1989’s “Key Lime Pie.”

Augmented by new violinist Morgan Fichter (replacing Jonathan Segel), the group offers a punchy and impeccably-played set of new and recent material.

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