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Hear The High Hawks\u2019 Shuffling Ode To The Road In \u201cHeroes & Highways\u201d From Debut, Self-Titled Album<\/div>\n
Members of Leftover Salmon, Railroad Earth, Hard Working Americans, and more spread their wings with brand new band and album; out June 11th<\/div>\n
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May 7, 2021 – Nashville, TN – In the first few seconds of The High Hawks\u2019 debut single, a flurry of pulsing electric piano, kick drum, and Townshend-esque guitar strums give way to a flat out J.J. Cale groove just in time for the first line to be sung: \u201cIf we could just find a highway…might even find a way to make it home.\u201d And thus, The High Hawks take flight. That tune, \u201cHeroes & Highways,\u201d is an appropriate first taste of music from the long-time-coming, feel-good Americana cooperative, naturally expressing the range of which the bands\u2019 members can reach. With close to 150 years of collective experience as professional touring musicians, The High Hawks\u2014Vince Herman \u202f(Leftover Salmon), Tim Carbone (Railroad Earth), Chad Staehly (Hard Working Americans),\u202fAdam Greuel (Horseshoes & Hand Grenades), Brian Adams (DeadPhish Orchestra) and\u202fWill Trask (Great American Taxi)\u2014have maintained a generation-spanning presence at the forefront of the roots music scene for over two decades. On June 11th, their debut album The High Hawks will be released via LoHi Records.<\/div>\n
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Yesterday, Live for Live Music<\/a> premiered the music video for the aforementioned \u201cHeroes & Highways,\u201d a song the band calls \u201ca nod to the ever-present tension of the thrills and experiences of \u2018the highway\u2019 and the comfort and pleasures of home sweet home.\u201d Live for Live music echoed that sentiment, calling the tune \u201ca much-needed reflection on the way of the road.\u201d Fans can watch the video for \u201cHeroes & Highways\u201d now at this<\/a> link and pre-order or pre-save The High Hawks ahead of its June 11th release right here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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While the term \u201csupergroup\u201d gets thrown around a bit too frivolously, it\u2019s an apt description for these gentlemen who\u2019ve known each other, played in other musical outfits together and sat in with each other\u2019s bands for the better part of the new millennium. But talk to the band members, and you’ll find that their reasons for getting together were much more down to earth. \u201cSometimes you meet somebody and you hit it off, and you feel like, ‘Man, I don’t want to just look at the cover, I want to read that book,’\u201d says guitarist Adam Greuel with a laugh. \u201cIt’s a tight-knit music community in our Americana-bluegrass-jam band world. Over the years, we all kept bumping into one another and realizing there was a deep sense of fellowship and kindred spirit. The main impetus to form The High Hawks was really a curiosity about one another, both musically and personally. This band came out of a yearning to hang out.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Two years ago, when they first convened at guitarist-singer Vince Herman’s house in the Rockies, there was no clear road map for where they might go. Greuel says, \u201cWe had a run of shows booked in Colorado, and we didn’t know what kind of music we were really going to make. Everybody brought a few song ideas along. It was two days before our first show, and that’s when a lot of the songs came together and our whole vibe as a band came together. We have shared influences, shared musical vocabulary, but even with that, there was a kind of telepathy that was like, ‘Holy moly, not only should we be playing some shows, but let’s cut a record too!’\u201d \u201cWe went in with zero expectations,\u201d says Carbone. \u201cOnce we got together and played the songs we had in mind, it was like, ‘Wow, there’s something going on here! This is not just a bunch of guys playing some songs. This is a band.’\u201d<\/div>\n
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Indeed, the baker’s dozen of songs that make up their debut have the strong identity and cohesiveness of a band three records into their career. The summery, fiddle-infused opener \u201cSinging a Mountain Song,\u201d with its self-referential line\u2014Soaring like a high hawk across this mountain top\u2014acts as a kind of mission statement for the whole collection. There’s a lot of good feeling and optimism in these grooves, from the celestial cowboy vibe of \u201cWhite Rider\u201d and the revved-up Cash rockabilly of \u201cBad Bad Man\u201d to the catchy, sauntering \u201cDo Si Do,\u201d which sounds like a great lost Grateful Dead track, the spare emotional cover of Woody Guthrie’s \u201cFly High,\u201d and \u201cJust Another Stone,\u201d a moving ode to love’s redemptive power. Throughout, the creative hand-offs between four songwriters and four distinct singers all come together to channel influences from bluegrass to folk to reggae to cosmic Americana into a singular, appealing voice. \u201cThese songs wouldn’t sound like High Hawks songs if it was just one of us playing them,\u201d Greuel says. \u201cWhen it all comes together, there’s a sound.\u201d<\/div>\n
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As touring starts to wind back up\u2014a list of the High Hawks\u2019 June tour dates can be found below\u2014the band is ready to get these new, feel-good songs out in front of a live audience. \u201cThere’s a lot of stuff on this record that’s soulful and soul-nourishing,\u201d says Carbone. \u201cThat’s what I get out of it. So I hope that people who listen will get something similar\u2014a replenishment and a nurturing of the soul.\u201d And that\u2019s something that, after all these years of making music and touring the world, all of the band members are grateful for\u2014as the outro of \u201cHeroes & Highways\u201d exclaims, they \u201cStill got a soul!\u201d<\/div>\n
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The High Hawks Tracklist:<\/div>\n
Singing A Mountain Song<\/div>\n
Talk About That<\/div>\n
Heroes & Highways<\/div>\n
Just Another Stone<\/div>\n
When The Dust Settles Down<\/div>\n
White Rider<\/div>\n
Fly High<\/div>\n
Bad Bad Man<\/div>\n
Do Si Do<\/div>\n
Home Is<\/div>\n
Blue Earth<\/div>\n
Trying To Get By<\/div>\n
Goodnight Irene<\/div>\n
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The High Hawks On Tour:<\/div>\n
June 2 – Pearl Street Brewery – La Crosse, WI<\/div>\n
June 3 – The Hook & Ladder Under The Canopy – Minneapolis, MN<\/div>\n
June 4 – WIJAM Presents Sol Dance at Jones Park – Appleton, WI<\/div>\n
June 5 – Mackey’s Hideout (outdoor stage) – McHenry, IL<\/div>\n
June 6 – The High Hawks Invitational @ Long Bridge Golf Course –<\/div>\n
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