Taught to Be Proud

Taught to Be Proud Artist: Tea Leaf Green
Label: Reincarnate Music
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 801190122127
EAN: 0801190122127
ASIN: B000BM6AY2


Release Date: 2005-11-15

Taught to Be Proud


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Tracks:

  1. The Garden (Part III)
  2. Taught To Be Proud
  3. Rapture
  4. If It Wasn't For The Money
  5. I've Been Seeking
  6. John Brown
  7. Pretty Jane
  8. 5000 Acres
  9. Morning Sun
  10. Ride Together
  11. Flippin' The Bird

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Excellent - but no substitute for seeing them live!.......2007-02-07

I love this album. If you are a jam band fan you will love this CD/album. Some one I know thought it sounded a lot like the Grateful Dead when I played it for them. I bought this CD after seeing them for the first time live. They are a great band and are very "together" with their sound. Found this CD addictive and never seem to get tired of it. GREAT BUY!

I only put 4 out of 5 stars because they are still better live than the CD.

5 out of 5 stars Incredible Tunes, Incredible Band.......2006-12-31

Tea Leaf Green is one of the fastest growing bands in the jam band scene and this album explains why. From the very first riff of the Garden III TLG lays down funky lines and fantastic songs (courtesy of keyboardist, singer and banjo player Trevor Garrod) that will blow you away. Though certainly a Jam band and by no means mainstream, their songs are incredibly catchy but remain very satisfying to listen to over and over again.The Rapture is an example of a song you'll immediately take a liking too, but has a quite original rhyme scheme and a unique cowboy funk rhythm.

This album is the culmination of a line of albums that just seem to keep better and better. Their last album, Living in Between is also a masterpiece worthy of pages of commendation. Also their live show is amazing and gets better every time I see them.

Check these guys out!!! They are the future of the jam band scene so get with it and buy this album!

P.S. They rep the bay!

5 out of 5 stars Thank iTunes!.......2006-08-07

Without Apple's iTunes, I never would have found these guys. They are outstanding. Kind of in the same genre of String Cheese Incident or Perpetual Groove, but better!

This is a great album.

5 out of 5 stars Thirty Year Time Warp.......2006-03-29

This album demonstrates everything that was good about 70s rock music - except it's from 2005, not 1975. What kind of diabolical time warp allows an album this stellar to be released 30 years too late? Who knows? Who cares? Call it fearful symmetry and just listen to this album.

For a jam band, there's not a lot of jamming here which - depending on your particular musical slant - might be a good thing. Or not. One thing's for certain, the musicianship is first-rate. Another thing's for certain, and it's that Taught to be Proud is chock full of memorable hooks and thoughtful melodies. At times they sound like the Jerry Garcia Band; at others, Paul Simon; and just when you think you've got them figured out, here comes what sounds like an amphetamine-dosed Pete Townshend guitar solo or power chord to push things over the edge - and all of that in the same song!

3 out of 5 stars Good singin', good playin', good things to come!.......2006-03-06

This is a mighty fine release! TLG is a band to keep an eye on.

My real rating for this is 3 1/2 stars, primarily because I think it is quite good...it's just not landmark (at least, not yet!). TLG are plenty talented and this is one release that I have been enjoying more with each repeated listen.

As other reviews have noted, there's a reasonable tendency to want to compare this to some of the classic albums of days gone by. I'll suggest it may be a little early in TLG's recorded history for that, but here's to hoping that they continue to live up to (and even to exceed) the promise that this release shows they have. I'll gladly give them credit for having come up with a cd good enough to have invited those comparisons!

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