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Dance Like Flames

Released by Borealis Records in 2006; BCD-179CD

Change meets continuity in this watershed CD that marks Tanglefoot’s first new material in more than four years. It is the band’s first recording with a female voice - that of violinist/violist Sandra Swannell. It’s also the first album recorded entirely in the band members’ home studios. The album features eleven finely crafted songs with writing contributions from new members and veterans alike, including Tanglefoot founder and alumnus Joe Grant.

1. Whiskey Trick
2. Hard Work
3. The Songwriter
4. Dance Like Flames
5. Paddle Like Hell!
6. Boot Soup
7. Empire and the Right (George)
8. Lunenburg Skies
9. When Dad and Uncle Archie
Lost the Farm

10. Maggie
11. For The Day



Captured Alive

Released by Borealis Records in 2003; BCD-157CD

Tanglefoot's first-ever live CD is a documentary of founding fiddler Joe Grant's last performances with Tanglefoot. Recorded over three nights in May 2003 at Toronto's Tranzac Club, the CD also introduces Bryan Weirmier (piano) and Terry Snider (fiddle). The retrospective recording features live versions of material from all of the band’s previous CDs, as well as one previously unrecorded song.

1. Secord's Warning
2. Seven A Side
3. One More Night
4. The Family Farm (intro)
5. Keppel Township Love Song
6. Prohibition (intro)
7. Dollar Bill
8. McCurdy's Boy
9. Constructive Criticism (intro)
10. Old Broken Soldier
11. There's a Bit of That Goes On
12. Awkward Donald
13. Successful Pirates (intro)
14. Traighli Bay
15. Loyal Americans (intro)
16. Fire and Guns
17. Crashin' Down
18. Radio Man
19. La V'La M'Amie


Way More Live

Released on DVD by Borealis Records in 2004; BDVD001

This companion DVD to Captured Alive offers the added element of Tanglefoot's visual energy and stage presence. There are sixteen songs, including four which do not appear on the Captured Alive CD. In all there are 76 minutes of concert footage plus an in-depth interview with the band; a photo gallery; concert out-takes; and interviews with Footheads, family and friends.



1. One More Night
2. Seven A Side
3. Radio Man
4. Closer to the Ocean
5. Feu Follet
6. Fire and Guns
7. Awkward Donald
8. Commodore's Compliments
9. McCurdy's Boy
10. Crashin' Down
11. Buxton
12. Roll on Jamaica
13. Traighli Bay
14. La V'La M'Amie
15. Losing Sight


Agnes on the Cowcatcher

Released by Borealis Records in 2002; BCD-143CD

Recorded during the fall of 2001 and winter of 2002, this is the first Tanglefoot CD with multi-instrumentalist Terry Young, whose musical contributions shone through despite battling illness throughout the entire recording process. It is also the last of three CDs featuring pianist/songwriter Rob Ritchie.

1. Backyard Sailor
2 . Feu Follet
3. The Commodore's Compliments
4. Miners and Mercy
5. Radio Man
6. Summer Ghosts
7. Little Soldiers
8. The Garden
9. Crashin' Down
10. Roll On Jamaica
11. Willow Dan
12. God had a Plan
13. The Midwife's Dance
14. Field This Side Of Heaven


Full Throated Abandon

Released by Borealis Records in 1999; BCD-115CD

With a title borrowed from a Dirty Linen review, this is Tanglefoot's first recording on the Borealis label and the first with Paul Mills producing. It contains 14 tracks that include some of Tanglefoot's most popular songs: One More Night, Seven A Side, and re-recordings of The Angel of Long Point and The Floating Bridge of Ennismore.


1. One More Night
2. Seven A Side
3. Emmeline
4. Jenny Wren
5. Let The Piper Play
6. McCurdy's Boy
7. Stubborn Old Heart
8. The Baldoon Goose
9. Minnie's Lullabye
10. Pouring Days
11. The Angel of Long Point
12. The Floating Bridge of Ennismore
13. Buxton
14. Paper Dragon



The Music in the Wood

Released by Tanglefoot Media in 1996; TML14-0896CD

Music in the Wood is the last recording made at Tanglefoot’s first home, Ooze River Studio in Norwood, Ontario. It’s also the first of two CDs to feature Frank Skrzeszewski on mandolin/guitar/banjo, and includes some of Tanglefoot's most popular and memorable songs. The front cover photo shows the hands of Desboro, Ontario luthier John Newton, who built current fiddler Sandra Swannell’s violin and viola.


1. Awkward Donald
2. Closer To the Ocean
3. Jack the Green
4. The Farmer's Piano
5. The Music In the Wood
6. Secord's Warning
7. La V'la M'Amie
8. Old Broken Soldier
9. Loup Garou
10. Stone Fences
11. Dollar Bill
12. Vimy
13. Song for the Road


Saturday Night in Hardwood Lake

Released by Tanglefoot Media in 1994; TML12-1194CD

Tanglefoot's first CD as a four-piece band was released eight months after the addition of bassist Al Parrish. It’s the last Tanglefoot recording to feature mandolin/banjo/guitar player and Tanglefoot co-founder Bob Wagar. It contains 13 songs, including one co-written with Cape-Breton songwriter David Stone.


1. Traighli Bay
2. Motherlode
3. The Last Breakdown
4. Jones 1/4 Line
5. No Smoke, No Baloney
6. Immigrant's Tears
7. Walls of Pine
8. Longjohns in Summer
9. The Drunken Dummer Survey
10. Fire and Guns
11. Losing Sight
12. Paddy's Finger
13. Blow to the Heart


Grain of Salt

Released by Ooze River Music 1992; ORM11-1192CD

This is Tanglefoot’s first CD, and the only one as a trio. The CD contains some early collaborations between Steve Ritchie and Joe Grant, a version of "Secord's Warning" with Steve singing lead vocal, and a song by Cape-Breton songwriter David Stone. The little guy on the cover is six-month-old Alex Ritchie, great-great-great grandson of Jack the Green.

1. Jack the Green
2. Selkirk Settler's Lullabye
3. Waltzing Willie
Warkworth

4. A Grain of Salt
5. Roll With the Tide
6. The Floating Bridge of
Ennismore

7. The Angel of Long Point
8. Up and Down the Stairs,
Drums at the Fair,
Wag's Jig
9. Sullivan's Shivaree
10. Below, Below
11. Secord's Warning
12. Keppel Township Love Song