Charlston Post & Courier
Morphine Fans Will Get Tangled Up In Twinemen
TWINEMEN: "SIDESHOW" (HI-N-DRY) 9/16/04
When Morphine frontman Mark Sandman collapsed onstage and died of a heart attack a few years ago, it marked the immediate end of one of the more original bands to hit the alternative music circuit during the '90s.

Morphine, which consisted of Sandman on bass, Billy Conway on drums and Dana Colley on saxophone, had several radio hits ("Cure for Pain," "Buena") despite the absence of a guitar anywhere in the band.
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The Boston Globe
The Twine Men at the Lizard Lounge:
by Steve Morse
The Twine Men feature the nucleus of Orchestra Morphine (including singer Laurie Sarget, drummer Billy Conway, and saxaphonist Dana Colley) and are named after a cartoon character conceived by Morphine founder Mark Sandman. There's nothing cartoonish about the sound, however. This is a unltrasophisticated band that knows no boundaries. Although known for baritone sax on a hypnotic, Dead type number, while Sargent showed new versitality by offering a brilliant spoken word rap and adding a song in French. The music also rocked with an urgent dynacism at times. An enthralling new band.

The Phoenix
The Twinemen and the Family Jewels carry on the Sandman legacy:
by Ted Drozdowski
It's a glorious mid-April day, and the birds are playing a symphony outside the fifth-story windows of Hi-n-Dry, a recording studio atop a solid old industrial building just outside Cambridge's Inman Square. Laurie Sargent, Billy Conway, and Dana Colley are sitting around a table....
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The Boston Globe
For the Musicians of Twinemen, It's a Whole New Ballgame:
by Joan Anderman, Globe Staff, 7/7/2002
Consider the ball of twine. It begins as a spray of loose threads, takes shape when the strands are twisted around one another, and thickens into a solid, interwoven mass. If it unravels, you wind it back up. With every revolution, the ball of twine grows bigger and stronger. If that description sounds a bit erudite for a bunch of string, all the better. It's hard to imagine a more appropriate way to introduce Twinemen, an ambitious and virtuosic new trio formed by drummer Billy Conway, saxophonist Dana Colley, and singer Laurie Sargent.
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Rolling Stone
Morphine Members Form Twinemen
After Sandman's death, Morphine members start over with new
band, album:
by Andrew Dansby, 5/28/2002
Morphine drummer Billy Conway and saxophonist Dana Colley and former Face to Face singer Laurie Sargent have formed the Twinemen, a new outfit which will release its self-titled debut album on July 9th. For Conway and Colley, the album will be their first studio recording since Morphine's 2000 album, The Night, which was released nearly a year after the July 1999 death of frontman Mark Sandman.
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Billboard
7/17/2002
Somewhat surprisingly, Dana Colley and Billy Conway have shown great determination and resilience in the three years since the death of their former Morphine bandmate, vocalist/ two-string bassist Mark Sandman. First they formed a nine-piece touring outfit dubbed Orchestra Morphine to pay tribute to their work with Sandman. Now, they return with a member of that act, singer Laurie Sargent, and a new studio project, Twinemen, on their own Caroline-distributed Hi-N-Dry imprint.
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The Boston Phoenix
by Ted Drozdowski, 7/11-7/18/2002
Few bands spring to life with a fully developed personality, but Twinemen have a leg up on the game. Drummer Billy Conway and saxist Dana Colley (who also play some guitar and piano here) developed their collaborative vocabulary in Morphine. And they're joined by vocalist Laurie Sargent, Conway's partner and a long-time friend of the Morphine crew. She's an elegant singer whose bold command and wide range of vocal tones allows her to use her voice as a textural instrument, playing to the emotions —often brooding —of each tune.
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The Valley Advocate
by Sean Glennon, 7/25/2002
Surviving Morphine members Dana Colley and Billy Conway team up with Boston scene veteran Laurie Sargent to create a dark, intimate and seductive record that hints at the presence of Mark Sandman's ghost, though you wouldn't say it's haunted by him.
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CDNOW Review
by Linda Laban
The self-titled debut from Boston's Twinemen is a blues-jazz set infused with psychedelic rock and a verve that isn't too far removed from the old Morphine aesthetic, something that's not surprising, since two of its members -- saxophonist Dana Colley and drummer Billy Conway -- are Morphine alumnae.
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