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Just a Spoonful CD
Just a Spoonful CD

Our debut full-length CD is still available. 12 songs of reactionary goodness, plus spiffy album art and liner notes.

1. Train 45 (trad)
2. C-Jam Blues (Ellington)
3. Spoonful (trad)
4. Banjo in the Holler (Dillard)
5. Cindy (trad)
6. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor (trad)
7. Blackberry Blossom (trad)
8. Columbus Stockade Blues (trad)
9. Old Joe Clark (trad)
10. Katy Kline (trad)
11. Ragged But Right (trad)
12. Orange Blossom Special (Rouse/ Wise)

Just a Spoonful CDMore Details
Tangleweed made every effort to record this in the style of an old field recording. The recording was made live to 2-track analog tape in the empty second-floor apartment of a two-flat in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. All the tracks were recorded in one afternoon in November, 2004, by Bob Weston. Everything is live and unedited. There are no overdubs. The band was literally gathered around the antiquated stove used to heat the apartment. Bob set up two microphones to capture the instruments, as well as an old RCA ribbon mic in the general vicinity of the vocalists. No headphones or monitors were used. The band played through most of the songs they knew over the course of the afternoon, never taking more than a few passes on any tune. You can hear floorboards creak between takes. You can hear feet stomping. You can hear voices crack to be heard above the din of five instruments. It is a flawed record, but also a very human one.

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Where You Been So Long
Where You Been So Long

Tangleweed originals mixed with classic bluegrass, old-time country, and Irish tunes. The songs run the gamut from up-tempo rockers (’Hard Times’, ‘Don’t Need a Bottle’) to delicate ballads (’Leaving of Liverpool’), with hot jazz (’I Found a New Baby’), mountain music (’High on a Mountain’), Irish fiddle tunes (’Sir Lucas De Somerville’), and classic bluegrass banjo (’Black Eyed Susie’) all covered with equal skill and passion.

1. Draggin’ the Bow (trad)
2. Hard Times (Tangleweed)
3. Black Eyed Susie (trad)
4. Ginseng Blues (trad)
5. High on a Mountain(Reed)
6. I’ve Found a New Baby (Spencer/ Williams)
7. Where You Been (Tangleweed)
8. Sir Lucas de Sommerville/ Musical Priest/
Whiskey Before Breakfast (Tangleweed/ trad/ trad)
9. Wrap Yourself Around Me (Tangleweed)
10. With a Bottle in My Hand (Tangleweed)
11. Drunkard’s Blues (trad)
12. Angeline the Baker/ Soldier’s Joy (trad)
13. Leaving of Liverpool (trad)
14. Last Call Waltz (Tangleweed and Jerving)

Where You Been So LongMore Details
Tangleweed is a five-person band from Chicago, Illinois, that performs a unique style of bluegrass that blends elements of rock, jazz, and country. One local media personality described the band as having "a bright new bluegrass sound." This latest compact disc collection certainly lives up to those accolades with 14 selections that have been extracted from a myriad of sources ranging from Ola Belle Reed ("High On A Mountain") to the Clancy Brothers ("Leaving Of Liverpool") and the jazz classic "I've Found A New Baby." The group is at their best on "Ginseng Blues," a medley of "With A Bottle In My Hand" and "Farewell Blues" and their instrumental rendition of "Black-Eyed Susie." With "Where You Been So Long?," Tangleweed has created a musical magnum opus that is loaded with variety, excitement, and imagination. When it comes to contemporary bluegrass, Tangleweed certainly knows how to deliver in style. --Bluegrass Unlimited

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