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Hayseed Congregation

About Me

(see blog page for links to other old WSL songs) White Star Line founder (www.whitestarline.indiegroup.com), veteran of many other Canadian bands: Drone (Vinyl Communications), King Salmon (Stinkin' Agnes Records) , Banana Royal (Incentive Records) , Bounty;the High Taste of Adventure), disbands WSL for various reasons including full time work, deliberate self exile from scenes, and starts a little side project for his own self enjoyment, playing found and traditional material, and originals. Band membership is rotating based on invitations or requests to join. No illusions of world domination, no egos to be stroked.

My Interests

Music:

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

My Blog

www.globalpundit.org - Washington DC, Sat.Mar 21st - Be There. Details Below.

http://globalpundit.org/2009/02/16/washington-dc-s... Mar 21 March on the Pentagon! - 6 years of occupation - be there! http://globalpundit.org/2009/02/16/washington-dc-satmar-21st -be-there-details...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:29:00 GMT

Op/Analysis - The Most Regressive Tax of All - GlobalPundit.Org

http://globalpundit.org/2009/02/15/opanalysis-the-... When you see a homeless veteran rolling a cigarette to help cope with the constant stress of living on the streets and ward off the hunger pangs a...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:09:00 GMT

MN Sen. Norm Coleman Bars ‘Citizen Journalists’ - Again

http://globalpundit.org/2008/11/11/mn-sen-norm-col... For the third time in just over a month, Republican Senator Norm Colemans staff has denied access to self described citizen journalist organiza...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:10:00 GMT

Oct 23-Third Party Debate News Update

http://globalpundit.org/2008/10/23/oct-23-third-pa... As reported by Free And Equal, the Nader Campaign, And the Constitution Partyother relevent sites to visit are www. breakthematrix. com and www. t...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:31:00 GMT

Arrested!:Iraq Vets Interview after Oct 15 Debate pt 3

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMCXIiqI5NM After the IVAW members were released by Nassau County police, we spoke 20 minutes after their release at 2:04 am EDT. original story can be read h...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:14:00 GMT

Arrested!:Iraq Vets Interview after Oct 15 Debate pt 3

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMCXIiqI5NM After the IVAW members were released by Nassau County police, we spoke 20 minutes after their release at 2:04 am EDT. original story can be read h...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:27:00 GMT

URGENT ACTION REQUIRED - Interview:Iraq Vets Against the War-Debate Protest 2/2

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FpSK7CnsLqA Members and supporters of Iraqi Vets Against the War (IVAW) are planning to crash the third and final Presidential debate on Oct. 15 at Hofstra Univ...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:59:00 GMT

URGENT ACTION REQUIRED-Interview:Iraq Vets Against the War-Debate Protest 2/2

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FpSK7CnsLqA Members and supporters of Iraqi Vets Against the War (IVAW) are planning to crash the third and final Presidential debate on Oct. 15 at Hofstra Univ...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:58:00 GMT

Iraq War Vets Plan Action to Force the Issue, Demand Face Time at Final Prez Debate

http://globalpundit.org/2008/10/10/iraq-war-vets-p... Members and supporters of Iraqi Vets Against the War (IVAW) are planning to crash the third and final Presidential debate on Oct. 15 at Hofstra Un...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:52:00 GMT

RON PAUL CAMPAIGN ‘MONEYBOMB MASTERMIND’ MAPS THIRD PARTY DEBATE ACCESS

http://globalpundit.org/2008/09/28/ron-paul-campai... the mastermind being the highly successful internet money bomb initiatives that brought record breaking millions into the Ron Paul presidential ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:18:00 GMT