You could get yourself a ticket trying for a new land speed record on some godforsaken corn-lined back country road. Or you could get a bus ticket to Newark, New Jersey. Or maybe a parking ticket to help our cash-strapped metropolis cling to fiscal solvency.

But we’ve got tickets that are much better than that. They’re advance tickets to our record release show at The Hideout, and they’re on sale now at Ticket Web. Everyone at the show gets a copy of the new CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, plus sets from Tangleweed and Shotgun Party.

How much would this magical evening of entertainment set a person back? Five hundred dollars? A thousand dollars? Seven hundred billion dollars? Nope. Eight bucks. A measley eight bucks guarantees that you get you in the door and a copy of the new CD. Get `em while they last.

Well, we have some good news and some bad news. First, the bad:

Tangleweed did not make the Top 5 vote getters in the CBGB Fest contest. We were overtaken at the 11th hour by the Off The Wagon Bluegrass Band from Nashville. And the judges chose Donny Biggins from Chicago as the winner, so he’ll be playing the opening slot for the festival - Congrats to Donny!! And HUGE thanks to all of you who voted for us.

Now, the good news:

TANGLEWEED IS PLAYING AT THE FESTIVAL ANYWAY!

The festival organizers just offered us and The Giving Tree Band (#7 in the votes, and also from Chicago) the chance to play POP-UP sets from the balcony between mainstage sets. It’ll be an old-school single-mic/single-spotlight setup, allowing us to keep the hot tuneage flowing for the audience while the mainstage sets get turned over. This should result in four or five short sets from each band throughout the entire day’s festivities.

We are extremely happy with this arrangement, and would like to send our most sincere thanks to Michael Raspatello and the gang at CBGB Fest for giving us this opportunity.

We’ll get good and warmed up with three full sets at our monthly Charleston gig the night before, and we’ll hit the ground running when we get the call on Saturday!

Thanks again to all of you who pulled for us in the contest - your efforts did not go unpunished, and we can’t thank you enough for all the support!!

We’ll see you on 11/22 at The Congress Theatre!

Billy, Kip, Paul, Ryan and Scott
Tangleweed