The first Bare Bones album was going to be a demo, but it turned out so well that the duo decided to sell it at shows. The songs were recorded on a 4-track cassette (!) and released in March 1990. These tracks have been remastered for the digital realm."Hutchinson plays a simple but majestic slide guitar to conjure up all kinds of magic, while Nuttall's voice musters much the same thing. Bare Bones is not the first group to approach pop this way, but they lack the pretension of most other minimalists. There is no deliberate, crusading experimentation. What they accomplish is humble, but rare – a little innocence regained and a sweet love of the music."THE OTTAWA CITIZEN"If comparisons help, Bare Bones are a sort of rock / torch / country blues cousin to Tuck and Patti's refined jazz, or you might think of this as a kd lang demo tape. In all, a good argument for minimal duos to flourish."OPTION MAGAZINE