Member Since: 22/02/2006
Band Website: http://hayseedcongregation.com
Band Members: Stephen Dohnberg: harmonica, guitars, bass, vox, washboard, zither, other shit, noisy pans, tongue flicker, etc.
Influences: The Carter Family, Okkervil River, Dust, Blue Cheer, Gibby Haynes, The Fall, PiL, Nuclear Death, Elizabeth Cotten, Bukka White, Woody Guthrie, H.L. Mencken, Shipping News, BlackHeart Procession, Cream Abdul Babar, Rodan, Bessie Smith, Magma, Buzzcocks, Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Warsaw, Black Mountain, Byrds, Blowfly, Pizza 4 Llife Crew, Gram Parsons, Butthole Surfers, Country Teasers, Cherubs, Chokebore, Drain, Cream, Band of Gypsys, Phil Hendrie, the Slits, King Crimson, Syd Barret, The Who, The Kinks, Yardbirds, Brian Jones, the Animals, Flaming Lips, Big Black, Rapeman, Kramer, Bongwater, Happy Flowers, NoMeansNo, Carcass, Violent Femmes, Crucifucks, Dead Kennedys, Flipper, The Cows, Steel Pole Bathtub, Melvins, The Band, Sun Ra, Devo, Merle Haggard, Low, Cool Hand Luke, Kinky Friedman, Dennis Kucinich, Rev. William Sloane Coffin, John Conyers, Phil Hendrie, GTO, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, Tom Hayden, The Animals, Boston Bruins, Henry Agard Wallace, Jimmy Carter, Les Paul, Black Mountain, Chris Hilman, Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young, Paul Leary, Gibby Haynes, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Catch 22, Robert Altman, Prairie Home Companion, Jon Wayne / Texas Funeral, Diggers, Levellers, Peter Coyote, peyote, Dean Moriarty, Dr. Albert Hoffman, Gary Hart, George McGovern, Fyodor Dostoevski, Philip Roth, Milan Kundera, Jerzy Kosinski, Last Exit From Brooklyn, John Dean, Richard Nixon, Bill Moyers, Jim Lehrer, Steve Bosell, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Elizabeth Cotten, Bessie Smith, Leadbelly, Stooges, MC5, the Temptations, Nico, Alice Donut, Neil Hamburger, Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Hunter S. Thompson, Katrina vaden Huevel, Gore Vidal, Studs Terkel, Peter Tosh, Poco, Neil Young, Ronnie Hawkins, Odiorne, Galaxie 500, Christopher Hitchens, Penn & Teller, yo' mama, various analgesics, Ron Paul, Mike Gravel, whomever punches Rudy Giuliani in the face, whomever kicks Hillary Clinton in the box, Mormons, Scientology, puppy mills, Vice TV/Vice Magazine, David Halberstam,
Sounds Like:
the Carter Family listening to Black Heart Procession or Blind Lemon Jefferson on an Edison Cone...
...except the neighbours on one side are cooking crystal meth and blaring MC5, Stooges, and Dust on an 8 track,
while the people in 'tother shack are smoking opium and hash and playing the Butthole Surfers and Les Savy Fav on a scratchy old turntable.after everyone has crashed though, you can hear the crickets, and it's really nice.
Type of Label: Major