Mark Weigel and Jeff Webb met at Cornell University in 1987. At the time, Jeff had just gotten to school, and Mark was coming off his first semester, having arrived in January of that year. They found a common interest in music as both played guitar and sang. Another common thread that brought them together was that they had both grown up playing in suburban garage bands. One of Jeff's shining early band moments was when his band won a radio call-in contest, and went into the studio to record with and be directed by Bruce Springsteen's Bass player, Gary Tallant. After rehearsing during their first semester together, Mark and Jeff developed enough of a set-list to play a coffee-house in the common room at Cornell. The show was a success, and it lined them up to play more gigs. Jeff met Teige Carroll in a Freshman writing seminar. The two became fast friends, and ultimately, Jeff introduced Teige to Mark. The three performed at a couple of coffee-houses before Matt Kane showed up at one, and told them all how good he was at the drums. Matt gets endless sh*t about his introduction to this day. By the time the band found Matt, Teige had already been hanging out with Noah Kornblum on West Campus where the two often played standards and listened to jazz. The Band's Cornell years were very successful, often playing 3 or 4 times a week. They played Ithaca's live music clubs, including The Haunt and the Nines, as well as many Fraternity houses. Throughout their four years at College, Mark and Jeff continued to play as an acoustic duo in the college-town bars (The Palms, Johnny's Big Red, Rulloff's, and the Chapter House). By the Spring of 1991, all of the band had graduated, and while the full band's future was not yet determined, Mark and Jeff decided to travel across the country in a VW bus and play small clubs in the state capital cities along the way. Mark and Jeff ended up in Colorado, and were soon thereafter joined by the rest of the band. They played the Boulder nightclubs and lived in Nederland. During their stay in Colorado, they recorded this album of all original material. Most of the songs were written during their time up in the mountains living (and freezing) in a small A-frame house (Teige Carroll's sketch of the front of the house is this album's cover art). Nederland is the first town you hit when you drive up the front range on Canyon Road at Boulder's west end. It sits at the edge of Barker resevoir, at an altitude of 8,236 feet, and has a population of about 1,500, including Grandpa Bredo Morstoel, more commonly known as “The Frozen Dead Guy.” Despite developing a respectable following as their "skip-year" wore on, several members of the band traveled back to the East Coast to pursue other careers. "Cold Springs," is a compilation of original material written by Teige Carroll, Jeff Webb and Mark Weigel and is performed by The Chowder. This album follows the band's first release, "Acoustic" which will soon be available for digitial distribution once Mark figures out how to get the rights to a couple of covers. "Cold Springs" was recorded April 15-16, 1992 at Red Door Audio in Boulder, CO and was produced by The Chowder and Steve Koppe; the album was engineered by Steve Koppe. The flute in "Full Blooded Americans" was played by Amy Wolfe. The Chowder includes Teige Carroll on bass and vocals, Matt Kane on drums, Noah Kornblum on piano and organ, and Jeff Webb on guitar, dobro and vocals. The Band now lives throughout the US: New York, Colorado, California. The genre of the album is folk pop in the style of James Taylor, Paul McCartney and Paul Simon