Country Fried Rock Interviews Trevor Garrod of Tea Leaf Green
Sloane Spencer
Posted On September 13, 2013
Tea Leaf Green considered renaming themselves after their original membership changed, when their bass player and founding member, Ben Chambers, abruptly left the band. Six years and two albums after that realignment, Tea Leaf Green have redefined themselves, continuing to create their own sound honoring the song and lightening their sound. In The Wake is not sparse, by any stretch, but rather than full instrumentation every moment for each song, their is a more careful addition of sounds, guided by producer, Jeremy Black. In The Wake includes more additional sounds than just the members of the band, yielding a lush, clearly “studio” album, rather than a “live,” jamming vibe. Shaking up their previous recording methods forged an entirely different process and product with this album; it was the first time they recorded separately in the studio and did not road-test songs prior to recording. Their CD release party was the first time they played all of the songs live–giving a new kind of energy to this noted, vibrant (jam) band.
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Liner Notes
- Tea Leaf Green
In The Wake - Animal Liberation Orchestra (ALO) — Sounds Like This [+digital booklet] Their friends from the San Francisco scene.
- Lissy Trullie Producer Jeremy Black played drums on much of this album.
- Jacob Fred Jazz Oddyssey Walking With Giants Reed Mathis’s previous band.
- Rebirth Brass Band Do Whatcha Wanna have a residency at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans right now.
- Whitey Morgan Sucking the 70′s: Back in the Saddle Again. You probably need Volume 1, too: Sucking the 70′s – not to be confused with the Stones album of nearly the same name, Sucking in the Seventies This is a “loose association” connection; I discovered that Josh Clark worked on a song for this compilation and sang on a track, but my Google fu was not adequate to determine which track, so I chose one that most clearly shows the intent of this compilation–take songs from the 70s and make them your own, which Whitey Morgan clearly did on this one.
In The Wake
Their friends from the San Francisco scene.
Producer Jeremy Black played drums on much of this album.
Reed Mathis’s previous band.
. You probably need Volume 1, too: 
– not to be confused with the Stones album of nearly the same name, 
This is a “loose association” connection; I discovered that Josh Clark worked on a song for this compilation and sang on a track, but my Google fu was not adequate to determine which track, so I chose one that most clearly shows the intent of this compilation–take songs from the 70s and make them your own, which Whitey Morgan clearly did on this one.
