Top tracks
Listeners also bought
Other Americana albums
Other Bluegrass albums
Put your hands on the remote! browse music »Where You Been So Long by Tangleweed
view larger image
fave it Americana | Bluegrass
14 tracks | 37 minutes
Released Jul 2006
on Squatney
Click
for a 30-second preview. All tracks are 192kbps high fidelity sound quality. Protected WMA $0.77 or unprotected MP3 $0.88.
listen album 30sec. shuffle buy CD review album promote album
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:05 Draggin' the Bow lyrics BUY MP3 02:05 Draggin' the Bow lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:05 Draggin' the Bow
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:08 Hard Times lyrics FREE 02:08 Hard Times lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:08 Hard Times
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:42 Black-Eyed Susie lyrics BUY MP3 02:42 Black-Eyed Susie lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:42 Black-Eyed Susie
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:19 Ginseng Blues lyrics BUY MP3 02:19 Ginseng Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:19 Ginseng Blues
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:03 High on a Mountain lyrics BUY MP3 03:03 High on a Mountain lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:03 High on a Mountain
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:36 I've Found a New Baby lyrics BUY MP3 02:36 I've Found a New Baby lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:36 I've Found a New Baby
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:06 Where You Been? lyrics BUY MP3 02:06 Where You Been? lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:06 Where You Been?
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:48 Sir Lucas De Sommerville / The Musical Priest / Whiskey Before B lyrics BUY MP3 03:48 Sir Lucas De Sommerville / The Musical Priest / Whiskey Before B lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:48 Sir Lucas De Sommerville / The Musical Priest / Whiskey Before B
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:35 Wrap Yourself Around Me lyrics BUY MP3 02:35 Wrap Yourself Around Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:35 Wrap Yourself Around Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:59 With a Bottle in My Hand / Farewell Blues lyrics BUY MP3 02:59 With a Bottle in My Hand / Farewell Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:59 With a Bottle in My Hand / Farewell Blues
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:49 Drunkard's Blues lyrics BUY MP3 02:49 Drunkard's Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:49 Drunkard's Blues
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:38 Angeline the Baker / Soldier's Joy lyrics BUY MP3 02:38 Angeline the Baker / Soldier's Joy lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:38 Angeline the Baker / Soldier's Joy
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:31 Leaving of Liverpool lyrics BUY MP3 04:31 Leaving of Liverpool lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:31 Leaving of Liverpool
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:16 Last Call Waltz lyrics BUY MP3 01:16 Last Call Waltz lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:16 Last Call Waltz
14 new songs from the acclaimed Chicago-based acoustic Americana band Tangleweed. Sing Out magazine says Tangleweed "hits on all eight cylinders."
Bio / Background
An Introduction to this Sound Recording, By Aaron Cohen
There was a time---way, way back---when folks got together in a circle, gathered around a microphone and sang ballads that came from shared traditions or arose out of their comments on the day’s big events. These singers and musicians just had their voices, whatever strings they could carry and maybe some dog-eared songbooks. Indeed, that oh, so long-ago half-year between October 2005 and April 2006 must have been a whole different era.
It was during those months that Tangleweed holed up with engineer Mike Hagler in Chicago’s Kingsize Sound Labs to record Where You Been So Long, its follow-up to the band’s debut, Just A Spoonful. As three seasons changed this quintet took on rags, Western swing, Irish jigs, bluegrass and some of the earliest forms of jazz through a filter tinted with the immediate thrills of rock ’n’ roll. No crew of samplers, guest singers or makeup artists were needed to configure this sonic panoply.
↓ more ↓One case in point is the Tangleweed original: “Hard Times.” With Kenneth “Kip” Rainey’s wonderfully strange mandolin solo and collective lyrics protesting war and economic deprivation, the group could be taking a page from the Gilded Era and Spanish-American War, or describing the mood of America while thousands of its citizens have fallen in the Iraqi desert. Or fiddler Billy Oh reviving the Hot Club of Paris on “I’ve Found A Baby.” Dropping his bass for an accordion, Paul Wargaski adds a new texture to the narrative of Irish immigration on “Leaving of Liverpool”; another song about a movement that could have happened in the last month or last century. Eventually, it’s all about the very human condition: Women are never far away as banjo player Ryan Fisher attests on “Black-Eyed Susie”; neither is booze as guitarist Scott Judd will claim on “With a Bottle In My Hand/Farewell Blues.”
Near the end of the disc, the guys in Tangleweed sing about the fifteen cent morphine with a beer chaser that costs just as much. The narcotic of choice and its price is the only line on this disc that sounds like it still belongs to a more distant past.
Aaron Cohen
Associate Editor, DownBeat
↑ less ↑






