Wood's Tea Company

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Wood's Tea Company

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Img_capt = Group members of Wood's Tea Company
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Background = group_or_band
Origin = Vermont
Genre = Folk, sea shanties
Years_active = 1981cite news | url =http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR2007111400956.html | title = Live! | first = C. Woodward | last = Irvin | publisher = Washington Post | date = 2007-11-15 | accessdate = 2008-03-07] —present
Label = Independent
URL = [http://www.woodstea.net/ woodstea.net]
Current_members = Mike Lussen
Howard Wooden
Tom MacKenzie
Past_members = Chip Chase
Rusty Jacobs
Bruce Morgan

Wood's Tea Company is an American folk music group based in Vermont. They perform a wide variety of songs, including sea shanties, folk songs, Irish drinking songs, and Celtic music. The group is known for their energy, musical talent, and their dry sense of humor between songs.

Members

There are currently three members of Wood's Tea Company:
*Mike Lussen - vocals, banjo, guitar, bouzouki, bodhran
*Howard Wooden - vocals, guitar, bass, bodhran
*Tom MacKenzie - vocals, hammered dulcimer, guitar, banjo, keyboards, bodhran (until 2000; 2007–) [cite web|url=http://www.tmackenzie.com/links.html|title=Tom MacKenzie - Links|accessdate=2007-12-07|quote=Woods Tea Company: I'm back! I've rejoined the group full time. Couldn't get enough the first time.]

Former Members
*Bruce Morgan - guitar, mandolin, concertina [Wood's Tea Company. "Where Am I To Go?" CD. 2000.]
*(D) Chip Chase - vocals, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, bodhran
**Chip died on October 06, 2006, several weeks after being hit by a pickup truck while riding his motorcycle. He had suffered a massive pulmonary embolism that was not and could not have been detected. [cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=19527219|title=Charles Chase|accessdate=2006-11-05]
*(D) Rusty Jacobs - vocals, guitar, tin whistle [cite web|url=http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070817/LIVING/708170325/1004/NEWS05|title=Rusty Jacobs|accessdate=2007-08-18]
** Rusty died of a heart attack on August 15, 2007. [cite web|url=http://www.woodstea.net/RussellObit.html|title=Rusty Jacobs|accessdate=2007-12-06]

Colgate University

Once a semester, Wood's Tea Company performs at Colgate University. Their shows are well attended, with students singing along to nearly all of the songs. Between songs, students often shout 'Arrgh!' to poke fun at the group's sea shanties. To honor this, the group wrote a song called "Aargh!", and it is performed at all of their Colgate shows.

Discography

1995 - Side By Each

# Irish Rain
# Lazy
# Clam Flats / Oyster River / The Bridge / Mud Walk
# Spotted Pony / Sugar Hill
# She Was
# Wayfaring Stranger
# Roll the Old Chariot / Green Willis
# Home Sweet Home
# April Wood
# Three Fishers
# Petticoat Whalers / Nantucket Sleigh Ride
# Chilly Winds
# The Trip
# Daughters and Sons

1999 - The Wood's Tea Co. - Live!

# Daughters & Sons
# The Wild Rover
# Banks of Newfoundland
# Wee Wee
# Jenny Glenn
# The Scotsman's Kilt
# The Folker
# 'Aargh!'
# Here I Am
# Blarney Pilgrim / Morpeth Rant
# Roll the Old Chariots
# The Dutchman
# Foolish Questions
# Alberta Bound
# The Cat Came Back
# Finnegan's Wake
# Somewhere Over the Rainbow
# There Were Roses
# Sandy River Bell / Soldiers Joy

2001 - This Side of the Sea

# Haul Away Joe
# St. Patrick's Day in America
# The Fireman
# Unst Wedding March
# The High Cost of Living
# This Side of the Sea
# The Morning Comes Early
# Farewell
# The Bullgine
# She Loves the Rain
# Little Birdie
# Ode to New Jersey
# Planxty Fanny Powers
# Bedford Harbor
# Lift & Tow

2003 - Standing Room Only

# Lonesome Traveller
# The Country Life
# Morning on the Clam Flats / Oyster River
# Girl of My Dreams
# Inspirational Moment
# RH Intro
# Robin Hood ("written by first-graders in Burlington, Vermont")
# Olympic Audience Judging
# Lament for Henriette / St. Anne's Reel / Soldier's Joy
# Sweet Appreciation
# 18 Again
# Where Am I To Go
# Santuario
# Rock / O'Keef's Slide / Lord of The Dance
# The Schooner I'm Alone
# Don't Pet the Dog
# Give Me Just a Little More Time
# This Land is Your Land
# Speed The Plow / Mason's Apron / Devil's Dream
# Rolling Home

2003 - An Evening With Woods Tea Company (DVD)

* Was aired on PBS a number of times.

2007 - The Passage

# The Passage / Whistle Jump
# All The Hard Days Are Gone
# December's Child
# Sink The Cheerio
# My Monday
# Before They Close The Minstrel Show
# The Coal Town Road
# Lovell the Robber
# The Old Dun Cow
# For Rusty
# Reuben James
# Round The Bend
# Gin Ye Marry Me or Birnie Bouzle
# On Board the Saratoga
# God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / O'Carolyn Tune
# The Waterfall

References

External links

* [http://www.woodstea.net/ woodstea.net] - official site