http://www.therefrigerator.net/music/petediscography.html

A fair number of readers have asked about Pete LaBonne and the Blue Reimondos from the book. I promise that someday soon I'll figure out how to post a few mp3s of the classic Blue Reimondos line-up from the '70s. In the meantime, you can explore some of Pete's output from the 90s on at the above website. Check out the lyrics. Hear some live samples. Read some of his prose and and what others have written about him. Nice review by Charles M. Young in the Atlantic. Pete spend a lot of time in New Orleans and NYC (he played on Richard Hell's last studio recordings) in the 80s but since then he's lived in a self-built cabin in the Adirondack Mountains. He moved a few years ago when his rural tranquility was destroyed by a hot rod shop being built down the road from his place (endless revving of engines) and the effort involved has put a crimp in his writing and recording. Because of the temperature in the winter (wood burning stove inside, sub-zero outside) he can only record in the warmer months and at his peak he was writing and recording a song a day. Sometimes he ended up with 60 or so great songs by Labor Day. Peter is without a doubt the most unique and unrefined pure talent I've ever encountered. Those who have gotten to know him and his work or spent any time around him feel nothing but lucky. For twenty or so years I thought that he should be signed to a label and do the whole record company / rock star thing. Critics would love him. But then one day in the early 90s I realized that he was in the business of making music, for himself and his friends, and knew that he should stay far away from the music business. He's got his cabin, his land, his instruments, the woman of his dreams (I don't think that he and Shelley have spent a day apart since 1977), his garden, and always a funky vehicle. Lives a happy creative life. You can't argue with success...