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With a few breaks, The River Styx might've been the East Coast's answer to the Chocolate Watch Band -- and in a fairer reality, they'd have opened for the Rolling Stones or the Yardbirds, or at least the Pretty Things, had the latter ever toured the U.S. But they didn't get the breaks, so it's only in the 1990's that anyone outside of Trenton, New Jersey has gotten to hear their music. They didn't have everything going for them. The name wasn't ideal, especially when they lengthened it at the height of the psychedelic boom-Rver Styx Blues Emporium stumbles off the tongue, and they came out of a part of the country, Trenton, N.J., hardly known for its major contributions to rock 'n roll. But the River Styx Blues Emporium (doesn't it sound like some made-up name for a rock 'n roll band on one of those mid-1960's Dragnet episodes?), known for most of its existence as simply The River Styx, did have a powerful and bold sound, and some considerable talent behind it.

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