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The blog was started by the Chicago-based acoustic Americana group Tangleweed to document their activities as working musicians. It has since expanded its mission to help engender greater interest and understanding of American vernacular music. The blog i
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Most Folk Heroes reviewed in Sing Out!
Our most recent CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, received a nice review in Sing Out!. Reviewer Tom Druckenmiller liked our take on traditional stringband music, as well as our approach to original material: Tangleweed writes tunes about...
Most Folk Heroes reviewed by Record Department
Tangleweed’s third CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, got a very nice write up in Record Department: Chicago Americana quintet Tangleweed takes its influence from traditional fiddle tunes, bluegrass, blues, hymns, rags and rave-ups ...
Most Folk Heroes reviewed in Bluegrass Unlimited
Our latest CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, got a favorable write up in this month’s Bluegrass Unlimited: This latest collection features traditional numbers “Sandy River Belle,” “Short Life Of Trouble,” an...
Most Folk Heroes is Traditional Music CD of the Year
The Rural Roots Music Commission has named Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals as its ‘Traditional Music CD of the Year’. Thanks!...
We reek of authenticity
According to Cool Noise, Tangleweed is a band that ‘reeks of authenticity’. They posted a very kind review of our newest CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals. Tangleweed are an Americana five-piece from Chicago who have a recent ...
Most Folk Heroes now available on eMusic
Tangleweed’s most recent CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, is now available on eMusic for your downloading pleasure. If you’re an eMusic member, please consider taking a moment to review the record....
Most Folk Heroes now available on iTunes
At long last, our third CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, is available at iTunes. The process was delayed several times. It was delivered to Apple in October, but an unspecified error prevented it from being added to the site. Some addit...
There is nothing to dislike on this record
Positive reviews continue to flow in for our newest CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals. The latest comes from Andy Riggs at Americana-UK. Tangled Up In The Bluegrass Weed Of The Folk Criminals Over the Xmas break I was given the film ‘Th...
More nice things said about us in Dutch
Positive reviews of Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals keep coming in. This comes from RootsTime. The pull quote is the last line: “The men of Tangleweed are our Folk Heroes of the moment.” Dank u wel. De vooruitgang heeft ook zijn...
New MP3 download from Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals
There’s a new downloadable track from Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals on our music page for your downloading pleasure. It’s called ‘Pick Poor Robin Clean’, an old raggy blues tune that we like a lot. It’s also ...
Nice things said about us, translated
A friend of my brother was kind enough to translate the Dutch-language review of Most Folk Heroes… I recently posted to the site: Tangleweed is a terrific, fresh string band that we have been enthusiastic about before. Their album “Most F...
Nice things said about us in a language I don’t understand
Here’s a nice Dutch-language review of our new CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, courtesy of Moors Magazine: Tangleweed is een heerlijke frisse stringband waar we al eerder enthousiast over waren. Ook hun album Most Folk Heroes Sta...
We want the airwaves
We’ve sent out the first round of airplay copies of our new CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, and the airplay reports are coming in from all over the world. Interestingly, the most popular track with radio programmers so far is our...
Criminal downloads
You can download DRM-free MP3s of our new CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, from Amazon.com. The scheduling is a bit of a mistake — we’ve set the release date for the CD on Amazon.com to be October 27th, but the MP3s go throu...
Save the date: Sunday, November 16th
We’ll be doing our CD release show for our third CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, Sunday, November 16th at The Hideout in Chicago. We’ll be joining a band from Austin called Shotgun Party. Cover is $8. Everyone in attendance...
Get the CD, baby
After months of manufacturing delays and some miserable dealings with a ganef in Maine, our new CD is available for purchase online. You can snag your copy at CDBaby.com. Buy buy buy buy!...
New CD update: they’re here
Our new CD has arrived, in all its orangey goodness. After months of delays, we finally have copies of Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals in hand. It’s almost a year after we first went to King Size to start recording it, nearly five mon...
Apparently we’re not the only ones who think EkoDisk sucks
I’ve written in previous posts about the horrible experience we had with a CD manufacturer called EkoDisk.com. Thanks to our excellent search engine placement for the phrase “EkoDisk sucks” (#1 in Google!), we heard from another ban...
The Takeup Medley live at the Abbey Pub
We played a show at the Abbey Pub a few months back, opening for Hot Buttered Rum (nice folks, they). Our friend Brian taped both band’s sets, and they’re available for download at Archive.org. Here’s a tune from midway through our ...
Where’s our new CD?, continued
We just got the money we paid EkoDisk.com back. Not from the company itself, natch, as they’ve still failed to return any correspondence for six weeks. I’ve made repeated attempts to contact EkoDisk.com owner David Phillips for weeks via ...
What folk heroes look like
Here’s a sneak peek at the cover art for the new Tangleweed CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, due out in a few weeks. Tony Nuccio did the design work (he also did our first two CDs). I had a hankering to use this image for years &#...
Preview of the new Tangleweed CD
Here’s a sample track from our forthcoming third CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, for your listening pleasure. It’s also available on our MySpace page. The track is Sandy River Belle, a sporty little instrumental batting le...
Quick studio postmortem
We had a good day today recording with Mike Hagler at King Size, though both Mike and our banjo player Ryan Fisher were feeling poorly. We tracked five songs, and added some overdubs to the tunes we tracked last time. The song list: The Takeup Reel/...
