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Happy Jawbone Family Band started out as a fake band. Now it’s a real band. Its members fell in love a very long time ago on a blind date during rush hour.

All the major rock and roll instruments are represented in the lineup. If another instrument is needed, the keyboard player can play a synthesized sound instead. Francis P. Carr sings and plays lead guitar. Elspeth Virginia Bourne-Kebbell-Csehak sings and drums. Alex Edgeworth Fisk sings and rocks the aforementioned keyboard. Luke Csehak sings and plays guitar. Bobby Csehak plays bass. Julia Tadlock sings on recordings and sometimes sings live.

Happy Jawbone plays mer-punk music. Mer-punk is a way of life.

The group is inspired by sleigh bells and hot cocoa and hot hams and ravishing hams.

The band hails from Vermont. People always tell them they look young for their age.

Happy Jawbone’s weirdest show of all time was a bar mitzvah at Six Flags on the Fourth of July. Thurston Moore was there.

Luke writes a lot of the material. He likens it to socializing with crocodiles. He puts it off for as long as possible, then Ted Lee from Feeding Tube Records in Northampton gets on his case. Ted is sure the band members are going to be big stars.

After a writing session, Luke puts on his ice skates and then goes to sleep.

The band has six albums: On the Wrong Side of the Candy Machine, Family Matters, Hotel Double Tragedy, The Return of Hotel Double Tragedy, OK Midnight, You Win and, most recently, A Happy Jawbone Family X-Mas Gift to You! 2011, Vol. One: Operation Ho! Ho! Ho!, which you can download as a free gift from the band on its Bandcamp website (happyjawbone.bandcamp.com).

Everyone agrees that OK Midnight, You Win is the best one. Luke says it’s high-fidelity, and the style is just right. It was recorded by the Valley’s own production wiz, Justin Pizzoferrato. You can listen to the best parts of all the albums on the band’s website.

In the near future, Happy Jawbone will put out a couple more tapes and wait around to see if the world ends at the end of 2012. If it doesn’t, it will sell out.

Happy Jawbone has a fan club you can join. Just mail a picture of something you care about to PO Box 322, Westminster, Vt. 05301. For more info, visit happyjawbone.com.