Circus Wife

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#		Title	Length
1		Believe Its True	2:56	Play
2		Say it say when	4:25	Play
3		where love belongs	3:23	Play
4		hold hands with no one	3:37	Play
5		little tease	3:38	Play
6		sweet as can be	3:38	Play
7		all that really exists	3:22	Play
8		silly fool	2:57	Play
9		no stranger to you	3:46	Play
10		el presidente	3:26	Play

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""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 circumstances led to the teaming up of Grant Hayunga with Tony Garnier (bass player/ band leader for Bob Dylan) and Steve Ripley, (former sideman for Dylan, JJ Cale, Ry Cooder, and Leon Russell), now famous as the leader of the Tractors and owner/engineer/ producer at the legendary Church Studio in Tulsa Oklahoma. The outcome would be Goshen's 3rd recording, "TRIXIE" , recorded at the Church, co-produced by Ripley and Hayunga and guest starring Tony Garnier. The record, a mixture of eccentric blues/folk balladry and live, full tilt swing - was a mixed bag of experimentation that remains an essential collaboration for Hayunga and other members of Goshen past and present. 2000/2001 found Goshen working in Los Angeles. A weekly slot at Hollywood's old school Blues and Jazz club "The Mint" - along with a friendship struck between Hayunga and actor Val Kilmer, created a buzz that had the band ( now made up of Austin's Hundred Year Flood and ThaMuseMeant's Aimee Curl ) travelling back and forth from their home in New Mexico to showcases in the clubs of Hollywood. Goshen attracted a development deal from longtime Warner executive John Beug.

Speculation continued until fall of 2001 when Warner Brothers incoming CEO dropped all resemblances of the Alt-Country division, including Wilco's "Yankee Foxtrot" and Goshen's Warner liason, John Bueg simultaneously lost his wife and mother in law in one of the two hijacked planes that would hit and incinerate the World Trade Towers on the morning of September 11th. The band members returned to Texas, Virginia and New Mexico respectively. Hayunga and remaining drummer Jim Palmer, continued playing as a stripped down Blues/Punk duo, culminating in the live studio recording of Dec. 6, 2001 - titled "Goshen & Showpony". The recording went unreleased and was sold stageside, while Hayunga and Palmer relocated to Santa Fe, and began playing and booking talent for Santa Fe's Veteran's of Foreign Wars hall. The V.F.W. quickly became an underground Blues - Roots and Folk scene, reuniting the migratory musicians from Texas, Virginia, and Kentucky with their longtime muse of New Mexico. Until its contoversial closing due to "club liquor license" technicalities, Goshen had a new home that was unparralled even by Hollywood's "The Mint". The attendance was awesome- a watering hole of Vets, local Bohemia, and Hollywood celebrities. At one point the buzz was so sweet that Goshen was invited to perform an exclusive engagement in Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival's Premiere of Bob Dylan's new film, "Masked and Anonymous".

In the following seasons, local entrepreneur, and grass roots enthusiast - John Treadwell, formed a small record label featuring initially the bootlegged recordings from the V.F.W. hall and eventually blossoming into Frogville Records/ www.frogvilleplanet.com. With the help of executive producer Val Kilmer, and engineer/producer Walker Barnard, Frogville records and Goshen created the new album "Bedlam to Ballyhoo" - a full tilt sonic assault that makes no apologies and is easily on par if not beyond Goshen's best work. To be released this fall (2003) on Frogville Records/ www.frogvilleplanet.com / Sweet sounds for a bitter world.