Tangleweed

"Tangleweed is a band of four forward-looking musical reactionaries from Chicago, Illinois. While the band's instrumentation is standard bluegrass, their music is anything but. With a repertoire both broad and deep, one listener described them as sounding like "a band playing on a pirate ship off the coast of New Orleans in the 1920s". Their three CDs have garned critical praise and worldwide airplay, earning the band invitations to appear at major festivals and high-profile venues around the country. "Tangleweed formed in the summer of 2004, with Paul Wargaski on bass, Billy Oh on fiddle, and mandolinist Kenneth Rainey. Rainey in turn brought in his Logan Square neighbor Scott Judd on guitar to complete the group. "Tangleweed combines high-energy performances with impeccable musicianship and a wide-breadth of influences to create a unique sound that is simultaneously modern and old-timey. The band has been hailed in reviews worldwide as a welcome breath of fresh air for lovers of stomping string band music and high lonesome harmonies." www.tangleweed.org