2011
What do you put on your first record in twenty years? Semi-Twang chose some great lost tracks to recut, and added some newer songs, picking up right where they left off. Highlights include a real firecracker, “Sonny Liston,” and one mysterious mid-tempo melodrama, “Wages Of Sin.”

tracks:

01. Sonny Liston

02. Do Right

03. The Wages of Sin

04. Just a Train

05. I Can’t Read Your Mind

06. When the Wind Kicks Up

07. It’s That Time Again

08. Nervous Energy

09. Your Name Was In It

10. Move It or Lose It

11. Doubting Thomas

12. When My Angel Smiles

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Semi-Twang is a band of brothers — literally and figuratively. John Sieger writes the songs and sings them, brother Mike Sieger plays bass and sings sibling harmonies in the higher reaches. Producer/guitarist Mike Hoffmann, Keyboard/saxophonist Bob Jennings and drummer Bob Schneider, all veterans of great Midwestern bands, flesh it out and then some.

Semi-Twang released the critically-acclaimed album “Salty Tears” on Warner Bros Records in 1988, with critics mentioning similarities to The Band, Creedence Clearwater and Doug Sahm. They call it Americana now, but back then it was pretty new territory.