Tea Leaf Green
Tea Leaf Green (TLG) is a five-piece jam band from San Francisco Bay Area, comprising Josh Clark (guitar and vocals), Trevor Garrod (keyboards, vocals, guitar, and harmonica), Reed Mathis (bass guitar and vocals), Scott Rager (drums and percussion), and Cochrane McMillan (percussion).
History
Tea Leaf Green began in the fall of 1996, when Scott Rager met Ben Chambers on the campus of San Francisco State University (SFSU). Chambers was the group's original bass player but left in 2007; he is featured on the band's first four albums. Rager and Chambers began playing together, practicing in Chambers's bedroom in a back house off Church Street in San Francisco's Castro District. In early 1997, Clark, a childhood friend of Rager, moved from the Los Angeles area to San Francisco and became the third member of the band. Garrod, also a SFSU student, joined soon after.
In the late 1990s, Tea Leaf Green began gigging throughout San Francisco, becoming the de facto house band at the Elbo Room for a period in 1999. The band's first album, eponymously titled, was released that same year and featured twelve original compositions, included songs such as "Professor's Blues," "Asphalt Funk," and "California," all of which remained part of the band's live repertoire for years. Over time, the band pared down the all-inclusive sound featured on the first release and formed a more focused style of songwriting inspired by Garrod's Dylanesque musings and Clark's unabashed, frenetic soloing.
Tea Leaf Green (album)
Tea Leaf Green is the debut studio album by Tea Leaf Green. It was released on November 27, 1999, by Bongo Boy.
Track listing
All songs written by Trevor Garrod.
Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to Asia. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world. There are many different types of tea; some teas, like Darjeeling and Chinese greens, have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour, while others have vastly different profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral or grassy notes.
Tea originated in southwestern China, where it was used as a medicinal drink. It was popularized as a recreational drink during the Chinese Tang dynasty, and tea drinking spread to other East Asian countries. Portuguese priests and merchants introduced it to the West during the 16th century. During the 17th century, drinking tea became fashionable among Britons, who started large-scale production and commercialization of the plant in India to bypass a Chinese monopoly at that time.
The phrase herbal tea usually refers to infusions of fruit or herbs made without the tea plant, such as steeps of rosehip, chamomile, or rooibos. These are also known as tisanes or herbal infusions to distinguish them from "tea" as it is commonly construed.
Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll (also chlorophyl) is a term used for several closely related green pigments found in cyanobacteria and the chloroplasts of algae and plants. Its name is derived from the Greek words χλωρός, chloros ("green") and φύλλον, phyllon ("leaf"). Chlorophyll is an extremely important biomolecule, critical in photosynthesis, which allows plants to absorb energy from light. Chlorophyll absorbs light most strongly in the blue portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, followed by the red portion. Conversely, it is a poor absorber of green and near-green portions of the spectrum which it reflects, hence the green color of chlorophyll-containing tissues. Chlorophyll was first isolated and named by Joseph Bienaimé Caventou and Pierre Joseph Pelletier in 1817.
Chlorophyll and photosynthesis
Chlorophyll is vital for photosynthesis, which allows plants to absorb energy from light.
Chlorophyll molecules are specifically arranged in and around photosystems that are embedded in the thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts. In these complexes, chlorophyll serves two primary functions. The function of the vast majority of chlorophyll (up to several hundred molecules per photosystem) is to absorb light and transfer that light energy by resonance energy transfer to a specific chlorophyll pair in the reaction center of the photosystems. The two currently accepted photosystem units are photosystem II and photosystem I, which have their own distinct reaction centres, named P680 and P700, respectively. These centres are named after the wavelength (in nanometers) of their red-peak absorption maximum. The identity, function and spectral properties of the types of chlorophyll in each photosystem are distinct and determined by each other and the protein structure surrounding them. Once extracted from the protein into a solvent (such as acetone or methanol), these chlorophyll pigments can be separated into chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b.
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Tea Leaf Green
ALBUMS
- In the Wake released: 2013
- 2011-01-22: Majestic Theatre, Madison, WI, USA released: 2011
- Radio Tragedy! released: 2011
- Coffee Bean Brown Comes Alive! released: 2009
- Raise Up the Tent released: 2008
- Rock 'n' Roll Band released: 2006
- Taught to be Proud released: 2005
- Living in Between released: 2003
- Midnight on the Reservoir released: 2001
- Tea Leaf Green released: 1999
- 2004-01-10: Sierra Vista, Tahoe City, CA, USA released:
- Looking West released:
- 2004-08-14: Indianapolis, IN, USA released:
2011-01-22: Majestic Theatre, Madison, WI, USA
Released 2011- Vote On Tuesday
- Let's All Ride Together
- Fallen Angel
- New Shoes
- Don't Curse At The Night
- Looney Bin
- Jubilee
- Earth and Sky
- Hanging From A Tree
- Honeymooners
- 7th Story
- One Reason
- Reservoir
- Training A Cloud
- The Garden Part III
- Precious Stone
- Faced With Love
- Dragonfly
- Sex In The 70s
- If It Wasn't For The Money
- Dreaming Without Sleeping
2004-01-10: Sierra Vista, Tahoe City, CA, USA
- The Garden, Part I
- Ride Together
- Hard Travelin'
- Ride Together
- Moonshine
- Panspermic De-Evolution
- Las Vegas
- Kali-Yuga
- Zoom Zoom
- Vote on Tuesday
- John Brown
- Gasaholic
- Ashphalt Funk
- Wet Spot
- Sea Monkey's
- I Believe
- Planet of Green Love
- Sex in the 70's
- I Got No Friends in Arizona
- Can You Guess It?
- I've Got a Feeling
- Beehive
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Earth And Sky
by: Tea Leaf GreenI don't plant crops and
I don't build fences
I don't ride on railroads
And I don't dig trenches
I'm living in between
The earth and sky
I don't go to school
I don't go to churches
I don't visit graveyards
I don't know the purpose of 'em
I'm living in between
The earth and sky
Following phone lines
To good times and bad times
Under the starlight
Under the moon
Shining down on me
Shining down on me
I'd write letters
But i'd never send 'em
The post script on 'em
Is never ending
I'm living in between
The earth and sky
I'm living in between
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