""Say it Say When" is Hayunga's formula at its best, psychedelic rockabilly that hilights Hayunga's deep signature voice effortlessly pumping out the words like diesel fuel. He's more poet than lyricist - Elvis as spoken word artist- the guitar work [+]""Say it Say When" is Hayunga's formula at its best, psychedelic rockabilly that hilights Hayunga's deep signature voice effortlessly pumping out the words like diesel fuel. He's more poet than lyricist - Elvis as spoken word artist- the guitar work is more high-speed punctuation than anything else - Carl Perkins as drummer -- and when that mixture is right, there's nothing better."
--Jonanna Widner
Santa Fe Reporter
Jan 5 2003
Val Kilmer produced his last album, bedlam to ballyhoo, and for
circus wife, Grant Hayunga teamed up with legendary producer and engineer Bill Palmer (Hundred Year Flood) and the team at Frogville Records/ frogvilleplanet.com up on the hill at Frogville Studios in Santa Fe to whip this beauty out in 6 days on an old 16 track analog reel to reel.
"I wanted to put out the new Goshen record on one condition, I wanted Grant to do some slow songs for me, I think it's his best album yet."
--John Treadwell
Frogville Records
Goshen
THE ABBRIDGED BIOGRAPHY OF GOSHEN
Goshen was formed as a musical project in the early 90's by artist Grant Hayunga. Named after Goshen county, Kentucky in Hayunga's home state. The name Goshen is also a biblical reference for the land of Milk and Honey. After graduating from R.I.S.D. in '93, Grant moved with his young family to the train village/trailer park of Glorieta N.M. 25 miles south east of Santa Fe. Having played in the Blues, Bluegrass, Rock, and Punk clubs of Kentucky since the age of 15 - Hayunga began making his first full length recording in N.M. in '93. Titled "Grant Hayunga -Goshen", the recording, primarily acoustic, combined members of New Mexico's ThaMuseMeant and an old musical teammate from Kentucky, drummer William Bartley - was a blending of Hayunga's roots. Not picked up in its time, the record has recently been re-relesed by Frogville.
Circa 1996, Goshen reteamed with members of ThaMuseMeant, William Bartley, and Austin's Hundred Year Flood, to record the stripped down "Sway Back".Tracked in Hayunga's back shed- the record was said to be an early example of Folk melancholy along the lines of fellow Kentuckian, Will Oldham. "Sway Back" has been passed around for a couple of years when members of Bob Dylan's management and touring band heard it. These unique circumst
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