It’s difficult to convey with words the excitement of listening to your new record 37 times in a row and deciding whether the break between the first and second tracks should be an eighth of a second longer. This picture will have to suffice.
We finished mastering the new CD tonight. Billy, Paul, and I worked with Mike Hagler to sequence the album and burn the master. The masters sound natural, not the headache-inducing square-wave distorted stuff that’s the norm nowadays. Must sleep now.
Our merch section has been completely redone. Gone is PayPal, because PayPal sucks. Gone is the hassle of buying one CD at a time. Gone is the hassle of separate buy links for US and international orders.
Now you can browse our wares, load up your virtual shopping cart, and pay for your purchases securely using Google Checkout.
CDs, buttons, and stickers are in there now. Digital downloads coming soon.
Check it out:
I stumbled across this last night while preparing to attend tonight’s mastering session for our 3rd CD, Most Folk Heroes Started as Criminals. We like Bob Weston a lot. He engineered our first CD, and has recently opened a mastering studio in Chicago. Bob’s engineering style eschews the slick and synthetic in favor of naturalistic sounds. The same sensibility informs his mastering work:
…[A]nother reason we wanted to open the place was to be part of the solution to the insane loudness war thing. We want to educate our clients and try to get CDs sounding good again. There are so many now that just sound loud, but not good. I think a lot of younger guys and girls in bands think that mastering simply means making it really loud.
Read the full article at bouncetodisk.com
…Most Folk Heroes Started Out as Criminals
We’re mastering it tomorrow (Thursday) night with Mike Hagler at King Size in Chicago. Unless something changes over the next 24 hours, here’s the track list and sequence:
Side 1:
Side 2:
*As a recovering Ohioan, I should point out that the correct spelling is ‘gray’.
Our recent show at Chicago’s Abbey Pub with Hot Buttered Rum is now available for download on Archive.org. Many thanks to our pal Brian for taping the show and making it available on the Live Music Archive. Now you can relive the show in all its silver-caped glory in the privacy of your own head.
The set list, as best I can remember:
Download page for Tangleweed, April 12, 2008 @ the Abbey Pub w/ Hot Buttered Rum
Something recently possessed me to search Youtube for versions of the song “Draggin’ the Bow”, which Tangleweed played on Channel 11 a couple of years ago. Here’s our version (minus Ryan, who was unable attend) followed by a few others. I found this to be a worthy exercise in contrast. Enjoy:
1. Tangleweed, Draggin’ the Bow, WTTW 11 Chicago:
2. Local Fiddle Club, Draggin’ the Bow (I really love this one):
3. Colby, 9 years old, Draggin’ the Bow. This young gentlemen should approach us at a show someday with fiddle in hand:
4. South Mountain Band, Draggin’ the Bow. Excellent slow country/polka version. You have to click the link this time, I can’t embed it:
South Mountain Band playing Draggin’ the Bow
That’s just a few of what I actually watched. There are others out there. See this link for more:
Alexander Gelfand, author of the liner notes to our nearly-out-of-print first record has scored another impressive byline. A few months after publishing his first piece in a scrappy east coast daily called the ‘New York Times’, Alexander has published an article in a sleepy midwestern newspaper called the ‘Chicago Tribune’. The Trib (as locals call it) is perhaps best known for breaking the story of the election of Thomas E. Dewey to the presidency in 1948 (right). The Tribune company has also helped transform the once hapless Cubs into the second best baseball team in Chicago.
Alexander has penned a piece on soundproofing for modern city dwellers. You can read the full article here: Put a Lid on It
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