French Letters are a unique band that combine the tributaries of spoken word poetry, jazz, rock, and the avant garde into a single stream of musical consciousness that transcends any one genre or category.
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At the forefront of the group is the poetry of Michael Crossley, whose writing style is at once forthright and visceral, yet vulnerable and beautiful, betraying the world-weary ennui of the beat writers combined with the candor of a working class punk sensibility.
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He is flanked by gui...