Twinemen were an

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based in

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created by former members of the bands

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and Face to Face. The group included

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(saxophone / vocals), Billy Conway (percussion / vocals / sometimes acoustic guitar), and

Laurie Sargent Laurie Sargent is best known as a songwriter and vocalist in the 1980s and 1990s. She was active in the city of Boston. Around 2008, she and her long-term partner, drummer Billy Conway, moved to Montana, where they began raising food on an organ ...

(lead singer / lead guitar). Various bass players, including former Face to Face guitarist Stuart Kimball, also performed with the band on the road and in the studio. Twinemen's music included a mix of jazz, blues, acid rock, and lounge. Twinemen chose their name as an homage to Morphine's late leader

Mark Sandman Mark Sandman (September 24, 1952 – July 3, 1999) was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer. Sandman possessed a distinctive, deep bass-baritone voice and a mysterious demeanour. He w ...

and his ''The Twinemen'' comic series. ''The Twinemen'' depicted three

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balls of twine who play together in a band. Twinemen formerly recorded in Mark Sandman’s former Cambridge-based

Hi-n-Dry Hi-N-Dry was a Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA-based independent record label and recording studio. Founded by Morphine singer and bassist Mark Sandman, the studio and label became managed by former Morphine bandmates Dana Colley and Billy Conway a ...

Studios.

Discography

Studio albums

* ''Twinemen'' (July 9, 2002) * ''Sideshow'' (September 21, 2004) * ''Twinetime'' (August 21, 2007)

Live albums

All live albums released through the Kufala Recordings label. * Madison, Wisconsin 02/01/2003 * Chicago, Illinois 02/02/2003 * Cambridge, Massachusetts 10/23/2003 * Denver, Colorado 09/25/2003 * San Francisco, California 10/01/2003 * Los Angeles, California 10/02/2003

External links

Twinemen
on Myspace
Twinemen at Hi-N-Dry archive
American jazz-rock groups Musical groups established in 2001 Musical groups disestablished in 2008 Alternative rock groups from Massachusetts {{US-alternative-rock-band-stub