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Byline: Jeff Johnson
As he ambles across the cracked brick of Peck Slip in Lower Manhattan on his way to the restaurant Quartino for dinner, the musician Evan Dando cuts such a dashing figure that one would swear it was 1992, Dando was still 25, and the Lemonheads' lead singer was merely taking a break from touring for his band's best-_selling album, It's a Shame About Ray.
Listening to his latest effort, titled simply The Lemonheads-
the group's first since 1996's Car Button Cloth-doesn't disprove this time-machine theory, either. It's got that same mix of sunny yet slightly melancholy guitar-based pop that earned him legions of fans around the world.
Part of the core of Dando's success has always been his ability to recognize a peer's brilliant songwriting, wrap his honeyed baritone around it, then fill the remaining ...