event Tea Leaf Green
Also Playing: Elmwood
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Fri Jan 22
9:30 pm
Tea Leaf Green and Elmwood at High Noon Saloon
If it's a sound even remotely associated with the jam circuit—from easygoing piano-rockers to funky wah-wah scribbles—San Francisco's Tea Leaf Green can play it with an admirably natural feel. The band, with help from producer David Lowery of Cracker, keeps its loyalties with the Allman Brothers and Grateful Dead side of the kingdom on the 2008 studio album Raise Up The Tent, focusing on earthy guitar sounds and strolling keyboards. Like a lesser version of Widespread Panic, Tea Leaf Green often seems to care as much about writing songs and honoring its influences as it does about jamming—and even though the songs still aren't distinctive at all, it gives the band a healthy sense of grounding.
High Noon Saloon 701 E. Washington Ave., Madison, WI
If it's a sound even remotely associated with the jam circuit—from easygoing piano-rockers to funky wah-wah scribbles—San Francisco's Tea Leaf Green can play it with an admirably natural feel. The band, with help from producer David Lowery of Cracker, keeps its loyalties with the Allman Brothers and Grateful Dead side of the kingdom on the 2008 studio album Raise Up The Tent, focusing on earthy guitar sounds and strolling keyboards. Like a lesser version of Widespread Panic, Tea Leaf Green often seems to care as much about writing songs and honoring its influences as it does about jamming—and even though the songs still aren't distinctive at all, it gives the band a healthy sense of grounding.
Updated 01/04/2012
