Freakwater

Freakwater
Catherine Irwin and Janet Bean in 2006
Background information
Origin	Louisville, Kentucky U.S.
Genres	Alternative country
Years active	1989–present
Labels	Ameoba Records Thrill Jockey Bloodshot Records
Associated acts	Eleventh Dream Day Horses Ha Stump The Host
Website	freakwater.net
Members	Catherine Irwin Janet Beveridge Bean Dave Gay
Past members	John Alexander Spiegel Dan Scanlon Peter Searcy Wink O'Bannon James Bond Matthew O'Bannon John Alexander Spiegel John Rice Brian Dunn Lisa Marsicek Bob Egan Max Konrad Johnston Joel Batty Brendan Burke John Nickels

Freakwater is an American alternative country band from Louisville, Kentucky, with one co-founding member living in Chicago. Freakwater is known for the lead vocals of Janet Bean and Catherin Irwin, who mix harmony and melody in idiosyncratic dissonant country-folk that is reminiscent of the Carter Family.

In 1989, Janet Beveridge Bean (of rock band Eleventh Dream Day) and Catherine Irwin founded the band, and they have been supported by several musicians since then, including members of Califone (2005 Thinking of You tour). Bassist David Wayne Gay, formerly of Stump The Host, is another long-time member of the band. They released their records on Chicago's Thrill Jockey label. From 2006 to 2013, Bean and Irwin worked on other projects. A reissue of 1993's Feels Like the Third Time as a 20-year anniversary restarted the duo playing together as Freakwater. In 2014, the band went out on the road, touring and playing the record as their main set.

In February 2016, Freakwater will release the record, Scheherazade, on Bloodshot Records. In advance of the full-length record—the duo's first record since 2005—Freakwater released a single called "The Asp And The Albatross".