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MOONSHINE HANGOVER

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Moonshine Hangover plays American Music. With roots planted in nooks and crannies all across the country, this band has grown its own genus of music amongst the lush timberlands of Oregon. There is an undeniable twang in the music Moonshine Hangover makes - a twang steeped in the souls and calloused hands of America’s everyman. There is an unmistakable grit to this sound - it is Rock n Roll and bourbon and blood and bone. There is an unwavering connection to the people and places where each of these men have been, and to their histories. This is music to drink to, music to dance to, music to love by, music to fight by and music to pray to.Resplandor, the bands third release, finds Moonshine Hangover hitting their stride while both deftly balancing and defying their roots in country, 70's era rock and Gospel music. The influences are all here, subtly saluted and done up in proper Moonshine Hangover fashion. On Resplandor, the band calls again on Producer/Steel Guitar Extraordinaire, Paul Brainard (Richmond Fontaine, Alejandro Escovedo, Fernando) to Co-Produce and lend his extraordinary steel guitar work, while Mike Walker (Renegade Saints, Nine Days Wonder) brings the record to Sunday service with his organ mastery. The band’s most mature and personal effort to date, Resplandor brings its stories and characters to life. Love and pain. Sin and Salvation. Life and death. Town and country. This record lives and breathes.
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Member Since: 01/05/2005
Band Website: www.moonshinehangover.com
Band Members: YD Henning -- Vocals, Guitars & Mando. Kris Stuart -- Lead & Slide Guitars,Vocals, Percussion & Mando. Will Johnson -- Bass,Vocals & Percussion. Greg Montplaisir -- Drums, Percussion & Moog.Friends: Mike Walker -- Hammond Organ & Piano, Paul Brainard -- Pedal Steel, Lap Steel & Dobro.
Influences: Alcohol, Sex, Merle Haggard & Jesus Christ.
Sounds Like: YD, Kris, Will & Greg....“Resplandor is like your favorite bar stool. Comfortable background support for your whiskey soaked life..” – Kord Davis, Whiskey Dick Records.“Resplandor is a harvest feast of American music. Loosen up your Bible belt and save your fork.” – Jimmy “Speedball” Tucker, Rock God.“On “Resplandor” the Moonshine Hangover gang has mellowed. Less the caustic punch of 100 proof grain alcohol and more the sweet fire of an aged Kentucky whisky. It will warm your gullet as the boys swap tall tales of downfall and redemption. Join them in a toast to feuds long simmering, outlaws on the run and the inevitable entanglements of the heart. Cheers!” – Lisa Lepine, Promotion Queen."Mining that territory where bands like the Bottle Rockets and the Drive-By Truckers hang out, these guys are bellying up to the bar with them. The sound is raw and theres as much energy on this studio album as any live stuff youre likely to hear."--Village Records"A shot of twang, hold the glitz... Grits-and-gravy... Southern-fried... Formed out of reverence of and proclivity for a beat-up hardwood dance floor, a Saturday night and long sets of sweaty guitar riffs and gravelly harmonies. They're as tight as the Skoal in your jeans back pocket, forged after many nights where success is measured in broken guitar strings and the empties on the amps."-- The Oregonian"Hard-rockin', twang-laden sincerity, smart songs and simpatico playing push Portlands' Moonshine Hangover past the alt-country also rans on the bands' sophomore disc, Thicket. If the bands songwriting continues to improve along these lines, we'll soon have our own local Drive-By Trucking franchise."-- Willamette Week"Moonshine Hangover power on with more twang-jacked Southern rock for the bold at heart. You'd never guess that this quartet was from as far North as Portland, but they seem to have Georgia on their mind and some blazing guitars to power the thought."-- Miles of Music"The beer-drinkers and hell-raisers in Moonshine Hangover take their debt to the authentic outlaw country seriously. This Portland quartets turbo-twang barn-burners scorch the stage like a flaming tractor careening trough crops, slapping off any sissy ironic trucker hats within a cornfields radius."-- Portland Mercury
Record Label: Drunkard's Dream Recording Company
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Roll another number....

A few months back, I got an email from the good folks at McMenamins.  They were planning to make October 2008 some sort of showcase for who they felt were the White Eagle's all time best acts and...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:09:00 GMT

Fallen Apples............

There's a little Moonshine Hangover related news to report..... Kris Stuart has formed a new band called Root Jack. Calling on Portland roots rock vets Chris Hutton (drums) and Kevin Cowan (bass) Root...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:18:00 GMT

MSH on NineBullets

Resplandor got a nice review this week over on ninebullets.net.... "Resplandor is Moonshine Hangover's third, and apparently final, album. It's a real damned shame, too. I remember hearing Murder City...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:54:00 GMT

Dont Let Go The Goat

The first post- Moonshine Hangover band featuring MSH members has found it's way to MySpace.  If you're a fan of metal, southwestern folklore or the black arts, check out Greg's metal duo: Goatsu...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:05:00 GMT

Pouring a Little Out....

Kevin Dubrow R.I.P.  I can't say that he was a great singer or they were a great band, but grade school would not have been the same without Quiet Riot.  They were one of those bands that h...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:15:00 GMT

Exit Interview from Willamette Week

Q&A: Will Johnson on Moonshine Hangover's Last Show November 7th, 2007 [4:27PM] Posted by: JEFF ROSENBERG | 2 COMMENTS I'm trying to come up with some clever way to twist the metaphor of a han...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:49:00 GMT

Crazy Dutch Fuckers....

Here's a review from The Neatherlands (altcountry.nl). We don't speak Dutch and the free on-line translatiosn we found, don't make much sense, so we're not sure if it's any good or not.  It does ...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:06:00 GMT

By No Means a Disaster: a Resplandor review from Americana UK

Raucous fare from grizzled Oregon veterans Moonshine Hangover are a superb American bar band - no more, no less. The members all resemble grizzled veterans of one too many honky tonks. 'Resplandor' i...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:37:00 GMT

Adios!

Hey all.  Just wanted to send a quick shout out about Moonshine Hangover's very last show.  We're playing one set around 10 PM @ Dante's on Nov 9th.  Then we're gonna get drunk wi...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:27:00 GMT

Whoa....... Penny Hill Mudsling....

A couple of weeks back we received a rrequest to use "WWJDD?" from our Thicket cd from The Daily Reflector, a small newspaper in Greenville, N.C. to use for a video they were making of a local event t...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:04:00 GMT