Boiled in Lead

rdf:langString Boiled in Lead

rdf:langString Todd Menton: vocals, guitar, mandolin, bodhrán, whistle

rdf:langString Drew Miller: bass guitar, dulcimer

rdf:langString Michael Bissonnette: percussion

rdf:langString The Crack, Atomic Theory, Omnium

rdf:langString United States

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rdf:langString Minneapolis, Minnesota,

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rdf:langString Brian Fox

rdf:langString David Stenshoel: fiddle

rdf:langString Jane Dauphin

rdf:langString Josef Kessler

rdf:langString Laura MacKenzie

rdf:langString Michael Ravaz

rdf:langString Mitch Griffin

rdf:langString Robin Adnan Anders

rdf:langString Boiled in Lead is a rock/world-music band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and founded in 1983. Tim Walters of MusicHound Folk called the group "the most important folk-rock band to appear since the 1970s." Influential record producer and musician Steve Albini called the band's self-titled first album "the most impressive debut record from a rock band I've heard all year." Their style, sometimes called "rock 'n' reel," is heavily influenced by Celtic music, folk, and punk rock, and has drawn them praise as one of the few American bands of the 1980s and 1990s to expand on Fairport Convention's rocked-up take on traditional folk. Folk Roots magazine noted that Boiled in Lead's "folk-punk" approach synthesized the idealistic and archival approach of 1960s folk music with the burgeoning American alternative-rock scene of the early 1980s typified by Hüsker Dü and R.E.M. The band also incorporates a plethora of international musical traditions, including Russian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Scottish, Vietnamese, Hungarian, African, klezmer, and gypsy music. Boiled in Lead has been hailed as a pioneering bridge between American rock and international music, and a precursor to Gogol Bordello and other gypsy-punk bands. While most heavily active in the 1980s and 1990s, the group is still performing today, including annual St. Patrick's Day concerts in Minneapolis. Over the course of its career, Boiled in Lead has released nearly a dozen albums and EPs, most recently 2012's The Well Below. Although the band recorded Scottish writer John Leyden's ballad "Lord Soulis" under the title "The Man Who Was Boiled in Lead" on their first album, the band's name is actually taken from the Irish murder ballad "The Twa Sisters" as performed by folk group Clannad on their album Dúlamán, as well as the New Year's tradition in Nordic countries of molybdomancy, or casting molten lead into snow to foretell the future.