Cooper House Studio received a couple of visitors over the weekend to preview some rough mixes of the upcoming SHOES album; the author and editor of the upcoming book cronicaling SHOES' 35+ year musical career-Mary Donnelly (author) and Moira McCormick (editor).  A post was made yesterday on the PowerPop BlogSpot webpage, commenting on their brief, initial sampling of the 15 new tunes.  The band is hopeful that the music community at large will receive the new album with the same excitement and enthusiasm as these first witnesses.  You can read their observations here; http://powerpop.blogspot.com/2012/01/just-little-bit-excited.html