LabelsAmeoba Records
Thrill Jockey
Bloodshot Records Associated actsEleventh Dream Day
Horses Ha
Stump The Host Past membersJohn Alexander Spiegel
Dan Scanlon
Peter Searcy
Wink O'Bannon
James Bond
Matthew O'Bannon
John Alexander Spiegel
John Rice
Brian Dunn
Lisa Marsicek
Bob Egan
Max Konrad Johnston
Joel Batty
Brendan Burke
John Nickels OriginLouisville, Kentucky, United States (1989) MembersCatherine Irwin, Janet Beveridge Bean, Bob Egan AlbumsScheherazade, Feels Like the Third Time, Old Paint, Dancing Under Water, End Time Profiles FacebookMyspaceTwitter
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Freakwater is an American alternative country band from Louisville, Kentucky, with one co-founding member living in Chicago. Freakwater is known for the lead vocals of Janet Bean and Catherin Irwin, who mix harmony and melody in idiosyncratic dissonant country-folk that is reminiscent of the Carter Family.
In 1989, Janet Beveridge Bean (of rock band Eleventh Dream Day) and Catherine Irwin founded the band, and they have been supported by several musicians since then, including members of Califone (2005 Thinking of You tour). Bassist David Wayne Gay, formerly of Stump The Host, is another long-time member of the band. They released their records on Chicago's Thrill Jockey label. From 2006 to 2013, Bean and Irwin worked on other projects. A reissue of 1993's Feels Like the Third Time as a 20-year anniversary restarted the duo playing together as Freakwater. In 2014, the band went out on the road, touring and playing the record as their main set.
Bloodshot Records
In February 2016, Freakwater will release the record, Scheherazade, on Bloodshot Records. In advance of the full-length record—the duo's first record since 2005—Freakwater released a single called "The Asp And The Albatross".
Collaborations
The band makes an appearance in the 1994 cult road movie Half-cocked.
Albums
1989: Freakwater (Amoeba Records)
1991: Dancing Under Water / Freakwater (Amoeba Records)
