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HA HA TONKA – ” Heart Shaped Mountain “

Posted: March 7, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Album Premiere: Ha Ha Tonka, 'Heart-Shaped Mountain'

Ha Ha Tonka are an adventurous band from Missouri, opens up its sound with its fifth album, “Heart-Shaped Mountain”. As with its past releases, the band’s gift for clear-eyed, intelligent songwriting proves that they’re still a cut above other bands that fuse indie with Americana, while remaining beholden to neither style. A song like “Favor” could fit in as a campfire singalong, “Going That Way” takes on a careening momentum as she comes around the mountain, while a somewhat left field song like “Land Beyond” seems to take its cues from somewhere else entirely, The album is out March 10th on Bloodshot Records.

Over their history, Ha Ha Tonka has recorded four critically acclaimed albums, toured the world, played Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits, and appeared on Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations. Through it all, these Ozarks natives have made friends, found love, started familes, and grown and matured together.

Heart-Shaped Mountain is a reflection of that development and maturity. Once aptly summed as “Indie-Americana, where Alabama meets Arcade Fire, ” Ha Ha Tonka has expanded their sonic palette, unveiling balanced, sublime, pop radio accessible heights and an emotionally broader, post-punk songwriting range, a la Apache Relay or a less enigmatic Jonsi, while keeping their trademark harmonizing vocals, jangly Southern revelry and crunchy hooks fully in tact. At it’s core, Heart-Shaped Mountain is an album about love and growth. At a time when divisiveness fills the headlines, Ha Ha Tonka is fighting the good fight, building narrative-tributes to friends and loved ones, memories past and prospects of the future.

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please  check out their previous albums , such a good band .

CD - The Hook Up - All 5 CDs

Band Members

Brett Anderson -guitar, mandolin and vocals
James Cleare – absolutely everything
Lucas Long – bass & vocals
Mike Reilly – drums & vocals
Brian Roberts – guitar & vocals

HA HA TONKA – ” Race To The Bottom “

Posted: January 19, 2017 in MUSIC
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Ha Ha Tonka isn’t one to shy away from a challenge. Their latest offering’s origin story is part tragedy, part triumph: a week into recording their fifth album “Heart-Shaped Mountain”, a hardware crash deleted everything and the band was forced to start over. With that early loss behind them, the band picked up the pieces only to find melodies and sounds they didn’t know they needed. The result is an expansive and celebratory album that seamlessly winds itself between genre and nostalgia. Their latest single “Race to the Bottom” may be the poster child single for this sentiment, coming off as a Springsteen-esque ballad while pushing forward to cinematic edges — a perfect soundtrack for those moments in life when we find the will to overcome.

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Heart Shaped Mountain is due out March 10th, 2017

SAMANTHA CRAIN – ” Cold Forgiver ” Ha Ha Tonka Cover

Posted: May 3, 2015 in MUSIC
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Singer/songwriter Samantha Crain first happened upon Bloodshot Records while working at a small record store in Perryville, MO, called Music Town. She rescued a Bloodshot compilation disc from the CD bins and played it in the store on a regular basis. With that footing, it wasn’t long before Crain was digging deeper into the Bloodshot catalog to find artists like the Old 97s, Robbie Fulks, Ryan Adams, and Neko Case.

“As time went on,” she says, “I grew to love and respect a lot of records that came out on Bloodshot: Mutt from Cory Branan, Harlem River Blues from Justin Townes Earle, Indestructible Machine by Lydia Loveless, Mirepoix and Smoke from Ben Weaver, and Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon from Murder by Death.”

Flash forward to 2014 to find Samantha Crain heading out on tour with a Bloodshot band, Ha Ha Tonka. Though she didn’t know them at all before, she says, “It took approximately one second of their sound check and one second of meeting their smiling faces for me to fall in love with them. Through the two months of touring with these guys, my band members and I all found our favorite songs in the set, and mine was ‘Cold Forgiver.’ It’s such a weird little tune, with this odd sorta key change, and these bouncy lyrics lines. So, when the opportunity came to record a cover of a Bloodshot artist, this song immediately came to mind. I hope we did it justice.”

Scroll down to see Crain perform in Bloodshot Records’ HQ in Chicago, IL.