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Duvall was a musical group with a line-up identical to the Smoking Popes. The drummer, Mike Felumlee quit, the band recorded two EPs, one full length album, and one Christmas album.Then the Smoking Popes got back together. Their lyrics dealt with Christian/Faith issues. .

Mark Duval (1962) is a singer / songwriter from Kalamazoo, Michigan. In March of 2006 he released his first cd, Rhythm of the Rustbelt, a mix of roots rock, folk and blues, the culmination of over 20 years experience writing and performing in a variety of musical genres. Mark’s eclectic songwriting has been compared to Tom Waits, Neil Young, and Bob Dylan among others. Mark Duval’s songwriting versatility goes wide and deep, taking the listener from haunted landscapes of brooding fingerstyle folk ballads to rhythm-driven latin dance grooves, alt-country waltzes and smoky, shuffling blues and jazz riffs that show off...