The Marlboro Chorus

The Marlboro Chorus, culling it’s name from a group of sullen-faced sisters who sit in their parlor, smoking and gabbing, sometimes resemble them at practice. All voices at a soft, complaining volume, sometimes muffled by thick smoke, the hum of the world outside barely making it through the shuttered windows. The Quad-City area of Iowa-Illinois generates lots of humming noises, from the farm- machine plants and the barges, the cars, trains and riverboats, and from these amplified songsters.

Principally the product of one B. Patric (whose friend Matt belongs to the sisters), The Chorus ends up as a two-headed pop music creature. The recordings are mainly Patric’s, with a fill-in from whoever here and there, and the live band adds drums and bass to the ubiquitous guitar. "The Emperor" Justinian (aka Justin Parris) plays the drums, and one Gary Heitman plays the bass. Local vets of the music scene in Davenport, Iowa, and co-founders of Future Appletree Records.