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Silent Coyote Music\2012
1. Windy City 3:07
2. Little Castaway 3:34
3. The Thief 2:41
4. Master Cherry (Intro) 1:01
5. Master Cherry Finds a Strange Piece of Wood 3:02
6. The Race Track Song 3:16
7. One Mistake Will Do 4:43
8. T-Bone Cologne 3:08
9. The Help 3:49
10. The Great Escape 3:47
Gillian Howe and Tyler Ryan Miller
saxophonist Roger Lewis, trumpeter and flugelhornist Efrem (E.T.) Towns, and trumpeter Greg Davis, all of Louisiana s Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
Gambling. Murder. Booze. Bicycles.
The music of Tumbledown House has been described as 'gritty saloon jazz', 'modern speakeasy music', and 'Tom Waits in a cocktail dress'. Consisting primarily of sultry vocalist Gillian Howe and the eclectic indie-jazz guitar work of Tyler Ryan Miller, Tumbledown House provides the soundtrack for raucous, prohibition-themed parties and has 'quickly ascended as one of the new, promising acts of the Rocky Mountain region' (Pop Rocket Press).
Tumbledown House has a brand new release (their second) called 'Fables and Falsehoods'. It enlists the talents of ten other musicians (including three horn players from New Orleans Dirty Dozen Brass Band) for an upbeat, 1920 s big band romp. The new album explores diverse subject matter (one song is based on the original story of Pinocchio written by Carlo Collodi in 1883, another describes the only consecrated shrine dedicated to unrepentant sinners, which still stands in Tucson, Arizona) and showcases the duo s talent for creating something vintage and familiar, yet refreshing, distinct, and exciting.
Following the success of their self-titled debut CD, released in 2009, Tumbledown House toured from Alaska to Louisiana, from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine, and has now performed over 250 shows in over 20 states. The duo continues to tour, sometimes with additional musicians, throughout the U.S. and has shared the stage with Crooked Still, The Devil Makes Three, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Keller Williams, as well as many other notable acts.
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Litte Label Music Review
Partying Like it's the 1920's
Fables and Falsehoods is the brilliant, sepia-toned soaked offering from Tumbledown House that starts off like a black and white silent film and keeps rollicking along into a colorful tapestry of clever tales of woe and object lessons wrapped in a crushed-velvet punch. Gillian Howe and Tyler Ryan Miller, the duo who are Tumbledown House spared no expense; left no rock unturned, and climbed every mountain high to unearth a sweet, tasty, little gem of an album.
Lyrically speaking, the turns of phase, puns, and stories told are intriguing and clever like the nod to Pinocchio on Master Cherry Finds a Strange Piece of Wood, or the obscure reference to the jazz innovator Leon Bix Beiderbecke in Windy City, which is the same song sporting the lyrics dirty feet and kettle corn interesting, in a 1920 s, Jazz Age kind of way. My favorite in this collection of lyrical acrobatics is contained in the song One Mistake Will Do.
Tyler Ryan Miller s production work and talents on this album remind me of going to a steakhouse and having a perfect meal with impeccable service to boot! Ladies and gents, this is how it s done. The tremendous talents of Chris Cundy, Adam Greenberg, Jake Fleming, Raquel Kober, Tom Murphy, Leslie Bahn, and Gregory Davis, Sean Lehmann, Roger Lewis and of course, Tyler, bring forth a vibe and stout musicianship that conjures up images of dancing girls, revelers and assorted shady characters, as flappers and gangsters parade to their soundtrack.
Gillian Howe supplies the narration with her pipes. Her vocal work is pure artistry; gorgeous in delivery and flow, dazzlingly original. Sometimes her voice is throaty and thick, like the taste of chocolate late at night; other times, it s well-toned, muscular and breathy like a cool breeze on a hot summer s day. And there are moments when her voice rises like fire roaring from a white-hot furnace, launching the lyrics into a meaningfulness which carries the music along and wraps around it in a sultry grand serpentine fashion; bringing the arrangements, tempos, verses, choruses, into a splendid mix of camp and pomp that is both chillingly deadly and warmly seductive in the same breath; the song T-Bone Cologne is great slice of what I describe. Gillian s performance, far above solid, captures your attention again and again throughout the album. It s enough to make the Rocky Mountains do the Charleston.
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'Fables and Falsehoods', the second album from sultry songwriting duo Tumbledown House, enlists the talents of 10 other musicians (including three horn players from New Orleans Dirty Dozen Brass Band), for a whimsical collection of songs tinged with 1920's big band and dark tango.
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