Limbo Boots
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Limbo Boots is the second album from Ali Baba's Tahini
Ali Baba's Tahini
Ali Baba's Tahini is a South Bend, Indiana quartet that incorporates everything from jazz and fusion to rock and avant garde. The band, which formed in 1997, made a name for themselves on the Midwest club circuit and began sharing gigs with an up and coming Umphrey's McGee.The original group...

, best known as the band Jake Cinninger
Jake Cinninger
Jake Cinninger, born Jacob Alan Cinninger, December 16, 1975 in Niles, Michigan, is an American musician. He has risen to fame as one of two lead guitarists, in the Chicago-based jam band Umphrey's McGee.-History:...

 was in before joining progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band Umphrey's McGee
Umphrey's McGee
Umphrey's McGee is an American progressive rock jam band based in Chicago whose music is often referred to as "progressive improvisation", or "improg" ....

. This is the only album to feature Kahlil Smylie on bass, who replaced founding member Karl Engelmann in 1999.

With the loss of Engelmann, one of the band's main songwriters, Cinninger is mostly responsible for the album's direction, which features early versions of soon-to-be Umphrey's McGee
Umphrey's McGee
Umphrey's McGee is an American progressive rock jam band based in Chicago whose music is often referred to as "progressive improvisation", or "improg" ....

 classics like "Ringo" and "Mulche's Odyssey."

Cinninger would disband Ali Baba's Tahini
Ali Baba's Tahini
Ali Baba's Tahini is a South Bend, Indiana quartet that incorporates everything from jazz and fusion to rock and avant garde. The band, which formed in 1997, made a name for themselves on the Midwest club circuit and began sharing gigs with an up and coming Umphrey's McGee.The original group...

 just months after the release of this album to join Umphrey's McGee
Umphrey's McGee
Umphrey's McGee is an American progressive rock jam band based in Chicago whose music is often referred to as "progressive improvisation", or "improg" ....

on a permanent basis.

Track listing

1. Lepidoptera

2. Ringo

3. New Definition

4. Water Movement

5. On Stolen Breath

6. Kat's Tune

7. Mulche's Odyssey

8. Air Movement

9. Packin' Junk

10. Four Winds

11. Fraction Ictus

12. Blueprints
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