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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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Cherokee Shuffle live at Fitzgerald’s
This is the maiden voyage of our version of the warhorse fiddle tune Cherokee Shuffle, from last week’s show at Fitzgerald’s in Berwyn. You can download the whole show at Archive.org. Download audio file (tangleweed_-_cherokee_shuffle_-2...
Honeysuckle Rose at OTS
Here’s some video footage of us at our last Old Town School show two years ago. It’s one of the handful of jazz tunes we play, “Honeysuckle Rose” by Fats Waller. We’ll be back on stage this Saturday, the 17th for two s...
Ginseng Blues, live at the Old Town School
As we ready ourselves to play two shows with Jerry Douglas at the Old Town School of Folk Music next Saturday, here’s a wee snippet from a previous performance there. The tune is Ginseng Blues, from Where You Been So Long, and the recording is ...
A little bit of Summertime in the dead of winter
This Boxing Day finds Chicago encased in ice, so here’s a little bit of Summertime for you all. This comes from our first appearance at Martyr’s in Chicago, in December of 2004, about a month after we recorded our first CD, Just a Spoonfu...
Send me dead flowers in the morning
Here’s a live interpretation of the Rolling Stones classic, “Dead Flowers,” from our record release show at The Hideout last month. It’s faster and spunkier than the version on Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, largel...
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...
Tangleweed at Wakarusa 2007 Video
Here are the final two songs from our Wakarusa ‘07 set, “Heroin” by Velvet Underground and “The Orange Blossom Special”, featuring a quick chunk of “Interstellar Overdrive” by Pink Floyd. Big Thanks again to ...
California, live from Knoxville
Here’s a quick excerpt from our August 15th appearance on WDVX’s Blue Plate Special. The song is ‘California’, which will be on our next CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals. The picture at left is Paul and me with th...
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...
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 ...
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...
Another Tangleweed blast from the past: more from the Metropolis
Here’s another early Tangleweed clip, from our days of slogging through our Sunday sets at the Metropolis Coffee House in Chicago back in the halcyon days of 2004. The song is ‘Spoonful’, about a month before we recorded it for our ...
Tangleweed blast from the past: a clip from the Metropolis
Four years ago this month, Tangleweed got our start at a little coffee shop way up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. In between blasts of steam from the espresso machine, we would play two sets each Sunday to largely disinterested onlookers...
Tangleweed’s Abbey Pub show available for download
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 it...
Fun with drunken Irish Karaoke
Here’s a fun little artifact from the Where You Been So Long sessions: a version of the Leaving of Liverpool (MP3) without vocals. When we record our tunes, we usually do the instrumental tracks as a group, and then overdub vocals. We had done ...
The Takeup Reel
I’m listening to the roughs from our session with Mike Hagler on the 20th of October, and liking what I hear. One of the songs we tracked was a little fiddle tune I wrote a few months ago called The Takeup Reel. We weren’t especially happ...
