...and welcome to the Tar Hut Records web site! Thanks very much for dropping in and supporting us. We thought you might be interested in knowing a little more about us -- what we're about, what we like and who we are. Tar Hut Records' main office is in Boston with an office in Chicago. We're committed to bringing you the best possible music - whatever we really love and think you should hear - power pop, rock, alt-country, polka, klezmer - we love it all. We believe, and are faithful to one statement - music first, everything else later. Enjoy the site!

DAVID KLUG (Chicago) - handles most of the A&R and public relations duties. He's a marketing guy, and travels extensively throughout North America, which permits him to see lots and lots of bands. He also has undergraduate and graduate degrees in forensic science, so contact him as necessary for crime scene examinations. The pile of tapes at his house is stunning, and Dave is the biggest pure music fan we've ever seen.

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JEFF COPETAS (Boston) - spent three years in the radio promotions department at Rounder Records in Cambridge, MA and one year in the internet-retail business at 20-store chain Newbury Comics. At Rounder, he put together and promoted the Frontier Of Country radio samplers. At Newbury, he had a hand in running the website. Jeff handles every-day operations and promotional aspects of Tar Hut. If you want stuff to review, tour dates, free packs of Blackjack gum,or press/radio interviews, call Jeff anytime, day or night, and he'll be happy to help out.

Email Jeff:

Favorite 1998 albums: Creeper Lagoon, "I Become Small and Go," Elliot Smith "XO," Pernice Brothers "Overcome By Happiness" Hobbies: playing and watching ice hockey, being incredibly unhip, acting like a goofball, cooking. College: Kent State University Favorite Band of All Time: The Kinks Skeletons in the Closet: Ted Nugent, Prince, Neil Diamond

LEO DALEY (Boston) - :Leo handles marketing side of Tar Hut at both the brick-and-mortar and internet levels, as well as the contracts and business aspects of the company. In other words, he's got a big brain and we love him for it because if it wasn't for him, all of our contracts and business affairs would be written on the back of a bar napkin in eyeliner pencil.

Email Leo:

Favorite 1998 albums: Pernice Brothers "Overcome by Happiness," (by a wide margin…) Lucinda Williams "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road," Nick Lowe "Dig My Mood" Hobbies: hanging out with my children, running (from what I'm not sure), cooking (I'm not as good as Jeff), music College: University of Arizona Favorite Band of All Time: The Rolling Stones Skeletons in the Closet: None, absolutely none... Well, OK... Madonna, air guitar