Tanglewood Numbers

When writing this record, David Berman didn’t realize its connection to his home state of Tennessee.

“For instance, he said it took him months to realize that the initials of the title Tanglewood Numbers were the abbreviation for Tennessee and that the album was bookended by a picture of Memphis on the front and of East Tennessee on the back. “So you have, in the form of a record, the entire state of Tennessee,” he said.”

(Source: Pop Matters interview)