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Ace Of Cups Gets A First Chance At An Overdue Debut

An all-women rock band before Fanny or The Runaways, Ace of Cups shared the same San Francisco stages as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, but never made an album — until now.
Decades after their original run in 1960s San Francisco, the members of Ace of Cups have finally released their first album.

Joel Selvin remembers the San Francisco music scene of the late 1960s as an especially fertile time for experimentation. "There was tremendous hunger and openness for musical influences," the music journalist and author says. "World Music, Indian music, rhythm and blues, jazz ... and that was all new in the world of popular music."

At the time, Selvin says, one band stood out for its talent and its

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