Chicago Americana quintet Tangleweed takes its influence from traditional fiddle tunes, bluegrass, blues, hymns, rags and rave-ups that grew out of the rural South. Tangleweed meticulously collected hidden gems, the lost, forgotten and/or obscure songs from Folkways reissues, 78s, box sets, traditional songbooks and the history of Americana music. This is especially evident in the title of their third album, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals taken from a little known 1920s classic. The album is rich, organic and authentic – Tangleweed carries on the tradition of old time music while expanding upon it with a few contemporary classics of their own.