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...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. Our dream artists are Teenage Fanclub, Nick Lowe, The Kinks, Kiss,
Pavement, Elliot Smith, Emmylou Harris and maybe Lynryd Skynyrd, too. We
believe, and are faithful to one statement - music first, everything else
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David Klug (Chicago)
- handles most of A&R* and public relations duties including radio,
press, and complaints. 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 exams. The pile of tapes at his house
is stunning, and Dave is the biggest pure music fan we've ever seen.
Email Dave:
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The
best of 2000, so far: Slaid Cleaves "Broke Down," Ryan Adams "Heartbreaker,"
Ian Moore "And All The Colors," Chuck Prophet "The Hurting Business,"
Damon Bramblett "Damon Bramblett," Willie Nile "Beautiful Wreck Of The
World," Randy Weeks "Madeline," Neko Case "Furnace Room Lullaby," Tar
Box Ramblers "Tar Box Ramblers," Robert Belfour "What's Wrong With You,"
Freedy Johnston "Live at 33 1/3"
Currently listening to: Paddy Casey "Amen (So Be It)," Longwave
"Endsongs," The Jayhawks "Smile," Red Star Belgrade "Telescope," Starlet
"Stay On My Side," Dolly Varden "The Dumbest Magnets," New Model Army
"Eight," Josh Rouse "Home," Velvet Crush "Teenage Symphonies To God,"
Blind Willie McTell (everything I can get my hands on), Warren Zevon "Life'll
Kill Ya," The Handsome Family "In The Air," Jimmie Dale Gilmore "One Endless
Night," Rick Shea, "Shaky Ground," Alex Chilton "Set," Chris Harford &
The Band of Changes "Wake," Tim Finn "Say It Is So," Chris Gaffney & The
Cold Hard Facts "Live And Then Some," Tommy Womack "Stubborn," Shelby
Lynn "I Am" Peter Case "Flying Saucer Blues," Emperor Penguin "Mysterious
Pony," Jon Dee Graham "Summerland," Kelly Hogan & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts
"Beneath The Country Underdog," Jim Roll "Lunette," Shaver "Electric Shaver,"
Roger Wallace "Hillbilly Heights," James Talley "Woody Guthrie and Songs
Of My Oklahoma Home," Fred Eaglesmith "50 Odd Dollars," Steve Young "Primal
Young," Gurf Morlix "Toad Of Titicaca," Bloodshot Records 5th Anniversary
"Down To The Promised Land," Smoking Popes "Live"
Favorite
records of 1999: The Backsliders "Southern Lines," Bottle Rockets
"Brand New Year," Brilliant Mistakes "All Hands & The Cook," Burnt Taters
"Vox Box," Chris Cacavas & Junkyard Love "Dwarf Star," East River Pipe
"The Gasoline Age," The Ex-Husbands "All Gussied Up," C. Gibbs Group "29
Over Me," Wayne Hancock "Wild, Free & Reckless," Havalina Rail Co. "America,"
Icecream Hands "Sweeter Than The Radio," Lonesome Brothers "Diesel Therapy,"
Grant McLennan "In Your Bright Ray," Magnetic Fields "69 Love Songs,"
Mary Lee's Corvette "True Lover's of Adventure," Martin's Folly "Man,
It's Cold," Ray Mason Band "Castanets," Buddy Miller "Cruel Moon," Beth
Orton "Central Reservation," Sparklehorse "Good Morning Spider," The Tares
"The Brothers EP," Richard Thompson "Mock Tudor"
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...).
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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:
Currently
listening to: The
Big Show, 2-6 on SportsRadio weei.com... NPR, Britney Spears, N*SYNC,
Chuck Prophet, "The Hurting Business," I also spend some time
with the Disney "Princess" collection.
Favorite 1999 albums: Elliott
Smith "XO" (holdover from '98) The Ex-Husbands: All Gussied
Up, Icecream Hands: Sweeter Than The Radio Lonesome Brothers: Diesel Therapy
Martin's Folly: Man, It's Cold Ray Mason Band: Castanets
Hobbies: hanging out with my children, running (from what I'm not
sure), cooking (I'm much better than 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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Jeff Copetas (retired)
- Jeff started Tar Hut Records with Leo in the Fall of 1995 and spent
over three years building the label. In October, 1999, Jeff joined SoundsBig.com
in Boston and ended his tenure with Tar Hut on January 1, 2000. Prior
to Tar Hut, Jeff 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.
Email Jeff:
Currently
listening to: Nothing. Jeff hates music, but he's been spending a
great deal of time on Napster.
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 dumb-ass, 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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