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| Inchworm is the novella you’ve yet to write, the bedtime story you will one day tell, and the fanciful version of your life that you live only in your head. Culled from the hearts and minds of Chicago’s most underrated tavern troubadours and best-kept secrets, the group’s inception itself is the stuff of dusty legend. In the summer of 2003, guitarist and vocalist Matthew Baugher was given a son’s nightmare summer job: travel deep into the Southern Illinois valley to restore and renovate his father’s ill-purchased Lake Paradise cabin. Fearing years of hard labor on his own, Matthew enlisted the help of three trusted friends from the Chicago independent music scene: Brian Morrissey, Mike Holtz, and Dan Ingenthron. With instruments and implements in hand, the wrecking crew rock band that would be known as Inchworm was born somewhere along a desolate stretch of I-57. The boys spent the entire summer of 2003 hammering and harmonizing, composting and composing, scrubbing and scratching together the kind of music that the time-forgotten cabin seemed to be longing for – organic, folk-laden pop with reverent undertones of ragged blues and barroom psychedelia. Almost 5 years later, the DIY spirit that incubated that long-ago summer remains alive and well in Inchworm. Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing (out fall 2008) was written and recorded by Inchworm in the places that inspire them most – their homes, hangouts, and the habitat they call Chicago. Creating a mood is as important as crafting a melody to Inchworm - soaring harmonies and atmospheric tones color songs like “Simple Days Without Money” and “Learn to Grift,” while “Green House Grown” saunters along like a Tom Waits melody with a Bourbon Street hangover. In just six songs, the band proves that the ability to translate one’s ideas from the rehearsal space to tape is a skill that’s all too often overlooked in today’s world of pricey studios and sound-altering producers. When a band can express itself as intimately and completely as Inchworm has on Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing, the result is a cohesive, translatable, and memorable musical statement. For more information, visit their website: http://www.inchwormmusic.com
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