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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!
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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.
Email Dave:
Favorite 1998 albums:
Mike Ireland & Holler "Learning How To Live," Money Mark "Push The Button,"
Lucinda Williams "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road" Hobbies: Feeding,
housing, and watching bats; collecting matchbooks; sampling bourbons;
eating salt (raw salt). College: University of Illinois at Chicago
Favorite Band of All Time: Tie: Elvis Costello & The Attractions;
Graham Parker & The Rumour (Yeah, I know, well, God Save The Queen...).
Skeletons in the Closet: Stealing a pair of expensive and colorful
boxer shorts from an old roommate, Jim Hurley (still got 'em, still wear
'em...10 years later...he still doesn't know). The Mamas & The Papas,
Jim Croce, The Partridge Family.
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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
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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
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