Album Notes

Listeners have a had time sticking Tangle Ridge into a niche. Their music has a bluegrass heart and a newgrass brain with old time country blues on one hand and modern singer songwriter sensibilities on the other. Call it Americana, call it folk-grass call it alternative country it doesn't much matter to Wayne county native Gilbert Hunt who rips up the fiddle tunes on fiddle or guitar and writes and sings many of the band's straight ahead bluegrass tunes. Caroline Keuneman sings leads and fills in the bottom end on stand up bass. Paul Eichenberger's mandolin and low down harmony vocals bring that old time sound to the fore. Steve Lutz switch hits on gutar and Dobro, sings leads, harmony and brings a wide range of songs to the group, original and otherwise from all the branches of the Americana music tree. One thing is easy to define, these folks have the harmony thing down. Their a capella version of the gospel tune, "The Mill" will bring you to your knees shouting "Allelulia Baby". Not surprising since Steve and Caroline sang and played together as a duo for 10 years and in this current band configuration for 5 more. Among their many credits, Tangle Ridge headlined the Torrey Music Festival and took the stage at the Salt Lake Gallivan Center Folk & Bluegrass Festival as well as Utah's most prestigious performing Arts Festival, the Utah Arts Festival.