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Cleanup-link rot|date=March 2012Infobox musical artist | | name = The Be Good Tanyas| image = Be Good Tanyas 2.JPG| caption = The Be Good Tanyas performing in Calgary , December 7, 2006| image_size = | background = group_or_band| origin = Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada | genre = Folk music|Folk | years_active = start date|1999–end date|2008| label = Nettwerk | associated_acts = Jolie Holland Po' Girl Frazey Ford | website = URL|begoodtanyas.com| current_members = Frazey Ford Samantha Parton Trish Klein| past_members = Jolie Holland The Be Good Tanyas are a Canadian folk music group formed in 1999 in Vancouver . http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-be-good-tanyas-p507791/biography Their influences include folk music|folk , country music|country , and bluegrass music|bluegrass . The style of music they performed can be referred to as alt-country or Americana (music)|Americana .
Biography
Formed in Vancouver , British Columbia , The Be Good Tanyas ( Frazey Ford , Trish Klein, and Sam Parton) first played together at tree planting camps in the Kootenays region of British Columbia. They eventually played their first concerts in Vancouver in the late 1990s.
In 2000 they embarked on a North American tour that ran from Vancouver to New Orleans , before returning to British Columbia to record their first album Blue Horse with producer Garth Futcher. The record, which combines old-time music standards such as " Oh& #33; Susanna ", " The Cuckoo (song)|The Cuckoo " and " The Lakes of Pontchartrain " with self-penned songs like "The Littlest Birds", was well received in the folk-roots movement and highly praisedCitation needed|date=February 2007 for the quality of the harmony vocals and the mixture of the new and the traditional in the instrumentation. Helped by the popularity of Americana (music)|Americana at the time of its release, it achieved a modest amount of crossover success in college radio . Citation needed|date=February 2007 The second album, Chinatown (The Be Good Tanyas album)|Chinatown , followed in 2003. Their third album, Hello Love (The Be Good Tanyas album)|Hello Love , was released on October 10, 2006.
The Tanyas gained some U.S. exposure when the Showtime (TV network)|Showtime series The L Word selected one of their songs, "In Spite of All the Damage", for inclusion in the series' soundtrack. A live version of "In My Time of Dying" was also included in the third episode of the third season, in which Frazey Ford featured as a nun and played the song in the opening sequence. The song "The Littlest Birds" was played during the first season of the Showtime series Weeds (TV series)|Weeds and was included in that season's soundtrack. The band's music has also been included in the CTV Television Network|CTV series The Eleventh Hour (CTV series)|The Eleventh Hour and in the feature film Because of Winn-Dixie (film)|Because of Winn-Dixie . Their cover of Townes Van Zandt 's "Waiting Around to Die" was also used in an episode of AMC (TV channel)|AMC 's Breaking Bad .
After the release of the first two Be Good Tanyas albums, Trish Klein collaborated with Alison Russell under the band name Po' Girl , a project that as of April 2007 has resulted in three albums: ''Po'girl , Vagabond Lullabies , and Home to You .
2007 saw all members of the band pursuing their own projects.
As of 2008, the band was on hiatus, to unwind from the stresses of touring and to pursue other interests. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=blog.ListAll& friendId=26474829& page=2 Be Good Tanyas blog Ford released her debut solo album, Obadiah (album)|Obadiah , in 2010.In 2011 it was announced that they would play the Winnipeg Folk Festival http://www.winnipegfolkfestival.ca/wp/festival/performers/ Winnipeg Folk Festival 2011 Performer Lineup heralding a return to performing. http://www.begoodtanyas.com/tour Official tour dates
Members
Frazey Ford ( guitar , vocals )
Samantha Parton (guitar, mandolin , banjo , vocals)
Live at the World Café: Vol. 15 - Handcrafted (2002, World Café) - "The Littlest Birds"
107.1 KGSR Radio Austin - Broadcasts Vol. 10 (2002) - "Light Enough to Travel"
'' Northern Songs: Canada's Best and Brightest (2008, Hear Music ) - "Ootischenia"
References
Reflist
External links
http://www.begoodtanyas.com/ Be Good Tanyas official website
myspace|thebegoodtanyas
http://www.pogirl.net Po' Girl official website
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/B/Be_Good_Tanyas/ The Be Good Tanyas at Jam!
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