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Official Web Site For The Band Tumbledown

Tumbledown is an indie band founded by Alan Collins of Farmington, Maine and Scott Swan, a native Mainer currently living in Jacksonville, Florida. Scott's son Jonathon Swan played on most of the tracks for our new CD Sail Away and is considered an "unofficial" member of the band. You can listen to songs on the Grooveshark widget below or buy the CD here.

Tumbledown gets its name from one of the many mountains surrounding Webb Lake in Weld, Maine - a place that both Scott and Alan have deep emotional ties to. In fact, most of the songs for the new CD were recorded in a cottage on Webb Lake. The picture above (and to the left) is of the sun setting on Webb Lake, with Tumbledown, Big Jackson and Little Jackson off to the right.

Sail Away, Tumbledown's first CD, is a completely home-grown project, from the recording to the mixing and mastering. It was digitally recorded and mixed on a PC-based system using Cakewalk's Sonar. Mastering was done using Sony's Sound Forge.

Although we enjoy many genres of music, our music is mostly acoustic rock with folk, country, blues and jazz influences. Many of our songs have a 70's soft-rock feel to them. This is because it is the bands and artists of that era that most greatly influence our writing and playing style. America is definitely the most influential, with bands and artists like Jim Croce, The Eagles, Poco, Dan Fogelberg, Jackson Browne, CSN (& CSNY), Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot & James Taylor not too far behind.

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