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Shon Aguero and Marcus Blair have been best friends since seventh grade. They grew up in Heavener, went to school here, and somewhere along the way decided they were going to make music together.
They were good at it. By their early 20’s, the two were recording original songs in a bedroom studio at Aguero’s house, layering guitars, experimenting with effects, even recording tree frogs and cicadas on the back porch and feeding the sounds into a machine to use as a beat.
The pair, who both now live in Columbia, Missouri, called themselves psychic twins, a nod to how often they finished each other’s sentences.
Then life happened. Careers. Families. The recordings went into a cardboard box and the box went into storage. Both men assumed that was the end of it.
They were wrong.
Earlier this year, Aguero, who is 47 for a couple of months, found the box. He started texting Blair, who i 48, immediately. He had found, in his words, “the lost tapes.”
“Last year I opened that old cardboard box after more than 20 years,” Aguero said. “What came out surprised me.”
Instead of just listening to the old songs and passing them around to family, Aguero went back into the studio. Blair went back to his notebooks, the same ones he has kept since high school, stuffed with lyrics, poems, and what he calls “marginalia,” scribbles in the margins that became songs. Together, they rebuilt the recordings from the ground up: new live instruments, new vocals, modern production.
The result is Twin Wolves, named for the mascot of the school where their friendship began. On June 1, they released their debut EP, Spectral Hymns. A second EP, The Psychic Twin, follows on July 13.
“I figured those recordings would never see the light of day,” Blair said. “But these two old Heavener Wolves wanted more. So I went back to writing lyrics and Shon got back into the studio, and without telling anyone but those closest to us, we resurrected those old tunes.”
The songs, written when both men were in their early 20’s, carry a different weight now. Questions about faith, friendship, and identity that felt abstract at twenty sound different at forty-five, after mortgages and children and everything else a life accumulates.
“God loves to bring things back to life,” Blair said, “and it appears this side of us is about to be revealed to the world.”
Spectral Hymns will be available on Spotify, Apple Music, and all major streaming platforms beginning June 1. To follow Twin Wolves ahead of the release, find them on Facebook at facebook.com/twinwolvesmusic.
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