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Music: MP3 downloads, podcasts, and video

Here are some samples from our CDs, as well as some odds and ends you won’t find elsewhere. If you like what you hear, you can pick up a copy of one of our CDs directly from us by clicking the Buy CD buttons below or by visiting on our Merch page. If you prefer, you can also buy from CDBaby or Amazon.com. Downloads are available from iTunes. For more info, please visit our Merch page.

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Samples of our records

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Sandy River Belle


 The first track on the new Tangleweed CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals. Recorded at King Size in Chicago, with Mike Hagler at the controls. [Download]
Pick Poor Robin Clean

 Another track from the new Tangleweed CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals. This is an old raggy blues tune with lyrics that are either about eating rotten bird meat or something far more objectionable. Or possibly both. [Download]
Hard Times



 Recorded in October, 2005, at King Size in Chicago, with Mike Hagler at the controls. From our CD, Where You Been So Long?. [Download]
Draggin’ the Bow



 Our take on a nice little rag, featuring Billy Oh’s fine fiddling. Recorded at King Size in Chicago, with Mike Hagler at the controls. From our CD, Where You Been So Long?. [Download]
Spoonful



 The title track from the first CD, recorded live to two track in an empty Chicago two flat, November, 2004, with Bob Weston engineering. This is not a drug song. Oh wait, yes it is.

Listen to this a few times, and it will bore a hole into your skull and take permanent residence in the deepest recesses of your brain. You will buy ten copies of the CD. [Download]
Make Me a Pallet on the Floor



 Recorded live to two track, November, 2004. This was the second take of this we recorded. I learned this from a Missippi John Hurt record. Nobody has ever sung of shooting and stabbing in as smooth and reassuring a voice as the late Mr. Hurt. From the CD Just a Spoonful. [Download]

Live

There are complete Tangleweed shows available for download at Archive.org. Tapers have our consent to make and share recordings of our live performances.

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Angeline the Baker/ Soldier’s Joy

 A medley of two old Irish fiddle tunes. From a March, 2006 set on Tom Jackson’s WLUW radio program. [Download]
Draggin’ the Bow This is from an appearance on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight television program in June, 2006. [View]
Hard Times Another song from our appearance on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight television program in June, 2006. [View]
WDVX Podcast

 This is a seventeen-minute podcast of our August, 2008 appearance on WDVX Knoxville’s Blue Plate Special radio show. We play five tunes from our new CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals. You can hear a stream via the flash doohickey at left, or, if you’d rather listen on your iPod or other portable player, you can download the whole thing. [download]
WLUW Podcast This is an hour-long podcast of our 2006 appearance on Tom Jackson’s WLUW radio show. We play some tunes live in the studio, listen to some tracks from the new record, and yammer with the host for a while. You can hear a windows Media Player stream via the [Listen] link, or, if you’d rather listen on your iPod or other portable player, you can download the whole thing here. [Listen]