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milkweed started life in roxbury, massachusetts on mission hill way back in 1993 when zev, g. honey porter (who was still living life as gregg porter) and blindbanjodjim (that's me) were living together in our roach infested apartment. after learning some of the basics of banjo playing and wanting to hear gregg sing (he and i were in a band prior to milkweed, called goop), i decided that i wanted to go in a new musical direction. zev discovered that he had a violin in his room, though he had no idea how he came about ownership of it and so after a few beers on sundays, we began writing songs about drinking beers and other meaningful (to us) detritus.
our first cassette, self-titled, was released in 1994 and 3 songs from it were chosen to appear in the indie award-winning (pat on the back) film "the darien gap". a few years later we managed to finish recording the follow up, again self-titled, cd. this time we managed to actually have a clearer direction of where we were going. by 2001, we had completed another cd, titled: "cry, lonesome and high" and prepared to tour the u.s., but certain political events put a bit of a damper on our plans and so we huddled back up in a shack in maine for the remainder of the year and worked on our most recent cd, which is finally complete, but not released yet, called "further to fall". this coincides with the fact that in 2004, we decided to call it quits and play a farewell tour, due to each of us living in different parts of the country and/or being preoccupied with other things.
for more info, visit our website or to buy cd's go to:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/milkweed1
http://cdbaby.com/cd/milkweed2
http://cdbaby.com/cd/milkweed3
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=212662452
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=212614938
http://musicishere.com/artists/Milkweed/Further_To_Fall
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=262916686
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