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DANCING HEALS by CHRIS JOHNSTON (The Age Newspaper) Here is a picture of Melbourne band Dancing Heals – who have a definite thing about cosmic American music and all the associated Americana -- living the dream. It is 2012 and they are on their second trip to the United States. This time it was to play at the CMJ Music Marathon, a very desirable mini-festival in Brooklyn and Manhattan every American autumn. The first visit was an epic roadtrip through the west coast’s rock-and-roll mythology, but more of that later. CMJ in 2012 went well. By then the Heals’ first album Into The Night was out with tracks Live and Learn and Leave Them All Behind already used on US TV and first ever single Out Of This used for a month as a promo for the NBC show Parenthood. Afterward, the band headed out of New York to North Carolina and the city of Asheville, renowned for many things but most notably beer and music. It has a strong counterculture and has been named by Rolling Stone magazine as the