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Article: Fairly `Odd'; State Fair headliners Gnarls Barkley are still "Crazy" after two years.(VITA.MN)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 21, 2008
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Byline: CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER; STAFF WRITER
At first, the whirs and whoos and intercom voices coming through the phone made it sound like Cee-Lo was hunkered down in the studio with Danger Mouse, his mad-scientist Gnarls Barkley partner, during an interview last week. But it turned out the noises weren't anything so odd.
"I'm at a car dealership," Cee-Lo explained from his hometown of Atlanta. "My car has been sitting for three months, so it needed a little work."
Gnarls Barkley itself had a lot of work to do over the past few months. The duo, which started making music together more or less on a whim, faced the daunting task of living up to ...