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'Ten Mile Tide' (self-titled) Reviews
"This third release from the San Francisco-based band shows that they’re ready to be heard outside their carefree city, and they have a promising road ahead. Although so many folk-rock bands are eager to pick up the torch from their 1960s forefathers, Ten Mile Tide actually has some appeal of their own to offer; and on their new album, they make this abundantly clear....."(more)
--Performer Magazine
"Third time's the charm for Ten Mile Tide--Following their first two albums, Ten Mile Tide has slowly built a solid following, but is still looking for that breakout album. With any luck, and if there's any justice, this one should do the trick. Building on a solid base of traditional bluegrass and folk, the record's ten tracks feature arrangements that take the genres into new places. The songs are written and constructed in a way that echoes sounds of the South-not the whiskey-soaked rock and roll of Lynyrd Skynyrd, but the more traditional flavors of Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels and (most prominently) the Allman Brothers Band....."(more)
--Mammoth Times
"With this self-titled album, their third, Ten Mile Tide has positioned themselves at the front of the new vanguard of roots rock fusion bands alongside Railroad Earth, Hot Buttered Rum, and New Monsoon...."(more)
--KyndMusic
"An accomplished and eminently listenable collection of foot-stomping folk music. All you folk folk out there -- and even you alt-rockers -- might want to catch Ten Mile Tide while it's still high, although I suspect this band is going to have very few lows....."(more)
--IndieMusic
"Get ready for a road trip, because you'll want to take one after listening to Ten Mile Tide. I hate to call this a 'jam band', but I fail to come up with another name for it. They approach their roots rock with a fun and optimistic air that can't help but be compared with the likes of the Dead and Panic. Thankfully, these guys are very good at what they do, so there's nothing to worry about. If you like your tunes lined with the sound of fiddles and a Hammond B3, then you can't help but fall in love with these guys. So, put the top down and get ready for the ride of your life...."(more)
--Mish Mash Indie Music
"Mashing together roots rock with bluegrass and a bit of country rock, Ten Mile Tide’s third album is a wild ride. The album was written while on the road over a two and a half year period and reflects all of those miles and miles of road adventures. Vocally it’s rustic and hillbilly certified while the instrumentation is rangy and weathered. Great folk stompin’ music like this is meant to be enjoyed while on a road trip so be sure to throw this album on top of your packed bags...."(more)
--Smother Magazine
"The songs have an unusually polished sound that comes from playing tons of shows. The first tracks, 'River Sun and Rain' and 'Bad Girls' sum up the record—solid songwriting and rich musicianship coated in a healthy sense of humor. Ten Mile Tide is clearly a touring band, but this is a very good, very fun record...."(more)
--High Bias
Newspaper Articles
"The last two years have been a rocky ride for this San Francisco-based Americana/Fiddle-rock sextet. Their band has gone from national success to burnout to tragedy and back again. Their first shows of 2008 began at the Fillmore's famed Poster Room last Saturday and continues through Sunday at Potrero Hill's Connecticut Yankee..."(more)
--E. "Doc" Smith, Beyond Chron
"Ten Mile Tide's guitarist Justin Munning said that despite the free downloads, Ten Mile Tide's record sales increased tenfold, allowing its six members to quit their day jobs in June, Munning said. The band also just scheduled a three- month nationwide tour based on e- mails from fans requesting they visit. Munning said the Internet may finally allow more independent bands to make a livable wage playing music rather than making just a handful of record labels and superstars rich. 'There's a shift of balance of power in the music industry,' Munning said. 'The whole attitude is going to have to change.' ..."(more)
--Jennifer Beauprez, Denver Post
"Bay Area acoustic folk-rock band Ten Mile Tide is hardly a household name in the world of rock. But it already has a tribute band in Brazil. That's the reward some bands get for seeing the writing on the technological wall a few years back. Ten Mile Tide's members have already quit their day jobs, a monumental event that used to mean the musicians were on the payroll of a major record label and selling hundreds of thousands of CDs..."(more)
--Tony Hicks, Contra Costa Times
"Not everyone in the music industry views the World Wide Web as the enemy. In fact, the San Francisco-based band Ten Mile Tide has embraced it. In partnership with Kazaa, one of the top peer-to-peer file sharing systems, the group has found a creative way to distribute its music. Without a recording contract, the acoustic folk-influenced rock band has achieved international success thanks to Kazaa users downloading more than 10 million songs for free..."(more)
--Tom Conway, South Bend Tribune
"Considering their city of origin, their habit of performing with bands like moe and the fact that they have six members, it would easy to pigeonhole Ten Mile Tide as just another jam band. However, what the band actually creates is more of an acoustic-driven folk-pop, anchored in easygoing melodies and augmented by sweet violin lines and male-female harmonies. Groove elements come through in the funky rhythm parts and trippy guitar leads, but on the whole Ten Mile Tide loves the hook more than they love the noodle...."(more)
--Dan Cook, Columbia Free Times
"While Ten Mile Tide has an easygoing sound that might remind you of Dave Matthews or Widespread Panic, it would be wrong to classify these guys as a jam band. For one thing, the songs on "Midnight is Early," the band's latest release, are way too short to be considered for jam-band status. That is actually a benefit for the band, because in the end these four- to five-minute songs allow the listener to stay with the album. Standout tracks include beautiful material such as "All Our Ships," "Carry On" and "Sweet Life." One of the CD's best songs also happens to be its longest, the nearly six-minute "Hurricane," which finds the singing band members harmonizing quite nicely..."(more)
--Charleston Post and Courier
"Together just three-and-a-half years and unsigned by a record label, it might appear that Ten Mile Tide has little business playing beyond the boundaries of suburban San Francisco. But, thanks to their success on the Internet, band members have quit their day jobs and are halfway through their second national tour playing to dancing, sing-along crowds on college campuses. Even in cities they've never before visited. When they were selected as the best emerging band on cornerband.com, downloads of their music took off..."(more)
--Scott Hilyard, Peoria Journal-Star (IL)
"With all the press the band has been getting (they have been featured on CNN, in The Denver Post, and other major media outlets) and the fan base they have amassed, Ten Mile Tide has been the object of affection for some major labels. But so far, efforts to sign the band have been unsuccessful, as Ten Mile Tide has opted for the freedom of doing their own recording and promoting. If more musicians get keen to Ten Mile Tide's approach, music fans may be seeing more artists reaching them without going through the record labels; this is good news if you are into the artist-made-music and CDs that cost 10 bucks..."(more)
--University of Montana Kaimin
"When the Munning twins formed Ten Mile Tide in 1999 along with four of their Palo Alto pals, the goal was to form a 'folk-inspired rock' outlet for songs equally influenced by the folksy songwriter standards of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and the psychedelic jam-band influences of the Allman Brothers and The Dead. Not long after, they began posting Ten Mile Tide mp3s on Web sites, exchanging them with people on file-sharing services like Napster. And when Napster was forced to shut down free exchange operations, the Munnings and Ten Mile Tide found the file-sharing program Kazaa. That discovery, claims the band, is quite possibly the reason why they call Ten Mile Tide their new day jobs. ..."(more)
--Jeremy Hadley, Spokane Local Planet (WA)
"Despite a seeming barrage of lawsuits aimed to curb illegal filesharing, use of such engines as KaZaA, Morpheus and LimeWire are nevertheless on the rise, and high-profile old stalwarts like Metallica have upped the ante with their anti-MP3 rhetoric. But for some bands, like San Francisco's acoustic independent group Ten Mile Tide, the Internet isn't the demon it's portrayed as by large musical conglomerates..."(more)
--Holly Johnson, Indiana Daily Student
"San Francisco’s Ten Mile Tide doesn’t mind sharing. Hooking up with file-sharing music software titans Kazaa enabled the band to live a rockstar lifestyle, quitting their day jobs when their online CD sales doubled after fans downloaded their songs nearly nine million times..."(more)
--Grant Britt, ESP Magazine (NC)
"San Francisco rock band Ten Mile Tide would irritate Metallica. The bluegrass-tinged group has made a name for itself by partnering up with file-sharing site Kazaa and heartily endorsing the free distribution of music online, flying in the face of many bands (metal granddads Metallica for one) who have spoken up against the practice..."(more)
--Wayne Melton, Richmond Style Weekly
"Illustrating the power of peer-to-peer promotion, San Francisco based band, Ten Mile Tide, has promoted its music through file-sharing on Kazaa for the past 12 months. The band has seen its songs downloaded more than 8.6 million times and online CD sales double, making the dream of being able to quit their day jobs come true. ..."(more)
--Rich Chernela, Kazaa Press Release
"What starts out sounding like average rock gets fairly interesting as the fiddle and guitars merge to create a groove that sounds like a country hoedown mixed with Counting Crows styled rock one moment, and 70s tipped mellow rock the next. The good thing is the songcraft doesn't bow out after a while and it holds up to repeat listens..."(more)
--Samir Shukla, Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC)
"Next Wednesday, music lovers are in for a treat as the San Francisco-based band Ten Mile Tide (TMT) makes its way into town as part of their first national tour, made possible because of the often-criticized and scrutinized act of file sharing..."(more)
--Marie Glenn, Clemson Tiger
"San Fran was the perfect launching pad for the Bay-based sextet Ten Mile Tide, a group that grounds its sound in '60s acoustic folkiness while aspiring to the more ethereal heights of today's improv-folk-rock aesthetic. It's a lonely path recently revisited by the group's Colorado counterparts the String Cheese Incident, but as an opener for such acts as Strangefolk, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and Moe, TMT has more than established its own unique jam-band pedigree..."(more)
--John Kreicbergs, Kansas City Pitch
"See Ten Mile Tide begin its national tour at O'Malley's Alley on Wednesday for $5 -- but download its music beforehand for free. Although the Recording Industry Association of America has recently launched lawsuits against those who share music illegally, Ten Mile Tide guitarist Jason Munning has no complaints as far as his band is concerned..."(more)
--Matthew Webber, Kansas State Collegian
"The San Francisco-based sextet has managed to get interviewed by CNN and has become one of Kazaa.com's most downloaded bands. And there's a mighty fine reason for it all: Ten Mile Tide's acoustic sound mixes bluegrass and rock with an undeniable groove and pop sensibility--all perfectly captured on their debut album, 'Flow'..."(more)
--Mark Pantsari, Columbia Free Times
"According to the band’s website, since September 2002, more than 4.6 million Ten Mile Tide songs have been downloaded by Kazaa users. Take that Metallica!..."(more)
--Lorne Chambers, Charleston City Paper
"Ten Mile Tide is currently touring in support of its latest album, "Flow," and after a few listens it's hard to resist singing along..."(more)
--Mark Pantsari, Charleston City Paper
"Ten Mile Tide, an independent San Francisco-based sextet, will return to Wytheville this Saturday night at Turn One as they continue on their two-month national tour in support of their latest CD, Flow..."(more)
--Pamela Carpenter, Wytheville Collegian (VA)
"Culminating its show with an impassioned violin smashing, the southern-rock band Ten Mile Tide beat out four other groups Saturday night to win Phi Kappa Psi's 12th annual Battle of the Bands competition..."(more)
--Jen Graham, Stanford Daily
Past CD Reviews
"Midnight Is Early"
"4 Stars...Oh, and the music's good, too. The music balances on the cusp of rock, country and folk. Just when you'd call it a rock band, the next track on its second CD, "Midnight Early," will have you rethinking its categorization...The six-piece, San Francisco-based band has a bright future ahead of it. It might bounce back and forth between genres, but the main thing is the band does it well..."(more)
--Jeff Hahne, GoTriad (NC)
"Ten Mile Tide’s new release Midnight is Early is saturated with wonderfully pleasant harmonies and nicely crafted tunes...Whether or not you download their music or buy their record, Ten Mile Tide’s Midnight is Early is a must have for any fan that loves a good blend of acoustic and electric rock. San Francisco, rich with pop music history, has yet another band to be proud of..." (more)
--K.B. Reidenbach, Indie-Music.com
"Ten Mile Tide, a band started by twin brothers Justin and Jason Munning and their Stanford roommates, mixes a Counting Crows-style with early '70s folk to create a unique and refreshing album. The music of 'Midnight Is Early' focuses heavily on the sextet's three-fold vocals and violinist Steve Kessler. Mellow bass and guitars complete the band's folk-rock sound. Cheerful, San Fran, flowers-in-your-hair lyrics blend smoothly with lyrics that have walked city streets and seen the people that slip through the cracks of the world... " (more)
--Libby Kelly, UNM Daily Lobo
"Flow"
"The Summer of Love never ended for the amiable, jammy San Francisco combo Ten Mile Tide. On their latest CD, Flow, the six-piece combines Cat Stevens-ish vocals with a sweet, soaring fiddle, a poppier-than-expected sensibility and lush production courtesy of the Tiny Telephone studio." (more)
--Kimberly Chun, SF Gate
"The signature of TMT is the expert playing, and more importantly, appropriate playing that allows the groove, melody and individual musicianship to shine through..." (more)
--Jordan Stewart, MusicalGraffiti.com
"Blazing a trail for neo-folkies in the new millennium..." (more)
--Heidi Drockelman, Indie-Music.com
"Ten Mile Tide take feel-good Jam Rock and spice it up with strings, keyboards, and most notably, strong pop hooks..." (more)
--Listen.com
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