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ROCK

The FuseAt the Palace (A.V.R.A.)

This self-produced album is a year old now, but, since the Winnipeg sextet is playing the Park Theatre on Saturday, now’s a good time to remind people that Jeff Hatcher (vocals/guitars), his brothers Paul (drums) and Don (guitar/pedal steel/keyboards/vocals), their longtime friend Dave Briggs (keyboards/guitar/saxophone/vocals) and relative newcomers Laurie MacKenzie (guitar/vocals) and John Neal (bass) are this city’s foremost keepers of rock ’n’ roll’s original flame.

These veterans were born to the sounds of Sun Records and Buddy Holly, weaned on the British invasion and the Everly Brothers and came of age with the Byrds, late-era Beach Boys, the Flying Burrito Brothers and the breezy sounds of the Laurel Canyon scene.

To this day, they play as if they absorbed all that music by osmosis, and they’ve spent their lives creating an authentic fusion of these influences.

The Fuse’s stripped-back energy was heralded as “new wave” when the band …