Meet the band, I mean SUPER BAND:
Chris "Gaff" Gaffney (Dave Alvin, Webb Pearce, Hank Snow and Felin Huskey)- vocals, acoustic guitar, accord ian
Dave Gonzalez (The Paladins) - vocals, electric guitar, "steel-string" and "nylon-string" guitars
Dave "DB" Berzansky-steel guitar
Dale Daniel- drums
Hank Maninger (Chuck Prophet) - electric bass, back up vocals
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DALLAS OBSERVER | by Darryl Smyers, September 7, 2006
Dubbed "western soul," the 13 tracks are emotionally deep elegies to times when music was more about the passion than the promotion. Besides stand-out originals such as the title track and "Midnight Dream," Gaffney and Gonzalez have chosen an inspired set of covers that work seamlessly alongside their own songs. Even "Cowboys to Girls," the classic Gamble and Huff chestnut, receives the patented Hacienda pedal-steel upgrade.
NO DEPRESSION | by Robert Baird, September-October 2006 (Live Review)
If Penn was all solo nuance, then the Hacienda Brothers were the band brawn.
AMERICAN SONGWRITER | by Hal Horowitz, September-October 2006
...this is leisurely, stark, emotionally stirring music created by veterans who understand that less is more. Think George Jones fronting The Flying Burrito Brothers; add a windswept spaghetti Western (“Son of Saguaro”) and a rousing Gamble-Huff cover (“Cowboys to Girls”) and you’ve got cosmic American music for the millennium.
STEREOPHILE | by Fred Mills, September 2006
This set marks the second time Penn has gone to the well with the Haciendas. I caught him in concert with Oldham earlier this year, and had to tell him how much I’d enjoyed his protégés’ 2004 debut, The Hacienda Brothers. “If you like that,” Penn replied, grinning broadly, “you’re gonna flip for the new one.” Amen to that.
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | by Tom Roland, August 28, 2006 (Live Review)
Much of the night's lengthy set list harkened back to the smoke-filled dance halls that bred Bob Wills' country-jazz hybrid, Western swing and Ray Price's two-step-ready shuffle beat. With occasional forays into rock, R&B and the blues, the band offered as much sonic swagger and energy as one associates with some of those classic pioneering rock records and the V8 engines that populated the roads. |
