Just Desserts (Tom Laverack and Larry Fessenden) released their debut concept album "Sentimental War" in 1988. The five-piece ensemble toured the clubs throughout Manhattan and was played widely on college radio and featured on Vin Scelsa's "Idiot's Delight" show on K-Rock in NYC. Just Desserts disbanded in 1988, but Laverack and Fessenden continued the name, and performed sporadically in various incarnations playing a variety of venues in downtown NYC, including LaMama etc, PS 122, Knitting Factory, Mercury Lounge, Rodeo Bar and CBGB's.

Diane Pine of Rockpool wrote "They say revenge is sweet, but Just Deserts is absolutely delicious...they sound a little like Tom Waits fronting the Violent Femmes...There is something for everyone to get hooked on. Try it you'll like it. I sure did."

They released an EP entitled "Cold Hearts and Whiskey" playing as a duo again, in 1989, and Barnone Records released the song "Almost Shook You Up" B/W "Flashing Blue" as a limited release "45" in 1990. New York Press wrote "...Singer-songwriter Tom Laverack's jagged folk-rock cuts to the bone straight through the most opportune vein, not unlike the songs of American Music Club's Mark Eitzel. Recorded live, with Laverack on guitar/vocals and band mate Larry Fesenden on sax/vocals, "Almost Shook You Up" chillingly depicts a numbed-beyond-belief protagonist...Disturbingly real. So too "Flashing Blue," taken from Sentimental War...wherein Laverack and Fessenden trade ragged lines about the jittery dead-endedness of detox hell, accompanied-but never overwhelmed-by mood-manipulating organ, bass, guitars, and drums. Gripping stuff."

In 1997, Just Desserts released their second full-length album "Give Up The Ghost", which played on college and alternative radio, while the newly re-formed four-piece made the rounds again around New York City during the late nineties. This collection featured two songs from Fessenden's critically acclaimed film, "Habit", ("Save You From Yourself" and "Mystery") and received various accolades for its vitriolic spirit and fusion of the acoustic folk element and a garage band sensibility.

David Avery of CMJ wrote "Backed by an understated and cleverly arranged ensemble, singer-songwriter/guitarist Tom Laverack offers lyrical gems about everything from alcoholism ("Alcohol") to homogenized rock radio ("Last Rock and Roll Band"). For fans of Mark Eitzel, Bruce Springsteen, Replacements." In the following years, Fessenden has continued to make great films, including "Wendigo" in 2000 and "The Last Winter" 2007. Laverack is slated to release his fifth album "Cave Drawings" in Winter 2009.