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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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Chicago Bluegrass Festival Recording
A solid recording of the recent Chicago Bluegrass Festival in Evanston, IL is available for free bit-torrent download at bt.etree.org: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=524105 Here’s a little sample, our four-man, banjo-less version of the ...
Tangleweed at Bernice’s Tavern Sat. 1/3
Greetings and Happy New Year from Tangleweed! 2008 was a great year for us. We played a slew of shows, visited several states for the first time, won an award, and released our third cd. Thanks for your support along the way! We’re kicki...
More CBGB Pics
Thanks to the miracle of FLICKR we’ve come upon a couple of nice snaps of Tangleweed playing in the balcony at CBGB Fest. Thanks to Rory O’Connor and MT Sullivan respectively for sharing their work so generously with us!...
Double Door / Charleston / CBGB Festival Report
WOW, we had a helluva weekend. Friday night Kip and I arrived at the Charleston at 6 to setup and line-check our mics, stands and cables, so that we could hit the ground running for our show later that night. Then we walked down to Double Door, w...
Listen to the Mockingbird live @ The Hideout
Here’s a sample track from Sunday’s record release show @ The Hideout, an accelerated rendition of our new CD’s closing track, Listen to the Mockingbird. Download audio file (tangleweed2008-11-16t15_64kb.mp3) You can download the wh...
Hideout CD Release Show recording
Our friend Joe Steffen recorded our live performance of “Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals” at the Hideout this past Sunday and posted it to Archive.org for your listening pleasure. You can access the show for streaming or downloa...
Tangleweed to appear before Congress…
…Theater crowd this Saturday. Here’s the schedule for Saturday’s Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival at the Congress Theater. Tangleweed will be doing pop-up sets in the balcony all afternoon. We have two pairs of tickets to the Fe...
Hideout CD Release Show Report
We’d like to send a huge THANK YOU to all who braved a cold, snowy Sunday to join us at the Hideout last night. The turnout and response to our first-ever complete performance of “Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals” was pos...
Shack-shaking poster action
Here’s the lovely poster for our upcoming show @ the Double Door in Chicago w/ Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers & Velcro Lewis. Fun fact: Playing guitar for the Shack Shakers will be none other than former Jesus Lizard guy Duane Denison. S...
Get tickets. The good kind.
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 s...
CBGB Fest Results are IN!
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 Do...
Tangleweed’s WDVX appearance available for download
Tangleweed’s August 15th appearance on WDVX’s Blue Plate Special is available for download on our music page. It’s five songs, recorded live in Knoxville in front of a studio audience. The sound quality is quite good. Matt, the hous...
With a Bottle in My Hand, Live at the Ark
This popped up on my iPod this morning, a live recording from June, 2006, at the Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was shortly before our second CD, Where You Been So Long, came out, and we were playing our first real out-of-town shows. The Ark was a g...
Looking forward to the Ola Belle Reed festival
We’re very pleased to be among the performers at this year’s Ola Belle Reed Homecoming Festival. We recorded Ola Belle’s song “High On a Mountain” for our second CD, Where You Been So Long, and we’re going to learn...
Saturday in Madison @ the Sugar Maple Fest
I’ll be playing in the Madison area this Saturday (August 2), backing up Deanna Veragona at the Sugar Maple Traditional Music Festival. Deanna is stepping in to fill the void left by Hazel Dickens who, sadly, has fallen ill and is unable to per...
Colorado Trip Report and Photos
We had a great trip on our first ever Rocky Mountain Foray. Here is a link to my pictures. Hopefully the other guys will post theirs at some point too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/10799390@N06/sets/72157606443571057/ Here’s a quick summary...
A Day in the Country: Sunday
We’re very proud to be back at the ‘A Day in the Country’ shindig at the Hideout. Last year, we got things rolling with an all-acoustic set outside. This year, we’re inside, toward the end of the evening. I’ll also be as...
Home again, home again
We’ve just finished two shows at the Bill Jorgenson Memorial Bluegrass Festival, and are heading south at an unlawful rate. We had a Saturday night show, and a Sunday afternoon show. Both went well. Andy Leach filled in ably for Scott on guita...
No rain! No rain! No rain!
Despite a day full or apocalyptic weather in Chicago that continued right up until the start of our set, the clouds parted for our Downtown Hoe-Down tonight. The band scheduled immediately before us had their set rained out, and ours was nearly cance...
Downtown Hoedown tomorrow night
We’re very pleased to be hosting a square dance tomorrow night in the Loop as part of the annual Looptopia celebration. Join us at Daley Plaza by the Picasso for an evening of music and dancing. Our friend Annie Coleman from the Golden Horse Ra...
Shot of Billy with Toumani Diabati
Our fine fiddler Billy Oh was invited onstage to jam with Toumani Diabati and his band last night @ Logan Square Auditorium. Here’s a blurry cameraphone shot of the festivities. Click on the image for a larger, blurrier version. It was painfull...
Billy @ Logan Square Auditorium tonight
Our fiddler Billy Oh is probably too modest to tell you himself, but he will be playing this evening at Logan Square Auditorium, opening for the great Kora player Toumani Diabati. He’ll be fiddling with the Princes of Futa. The show is all-ages...
