Chris Haugen Announces Spring Tour Dates and Yoshi's SF is the Marquee show

Chris Haugen's guitar wizardry has earned accolades and collaborations
running the gamut from Sean Penn, to Ken Kesey, to John Popper. His 2008
release of original guitar music (Seahorse Rodeo) landed a feature on
the cover of SF Chronicle Datebook, and Chris has since enjoyed a string
of success and recognition as a bandleader. His band Seahorse Rodeo
features swampy slide guitar grooves, catchy original hooks, and
surprising cover tunes from artists like Radiohead, Beck, and Lou Reed.
Chris also recently founded a Beck inspired band, Newfangled Wasteland.
When not playing guitar, you can find Chris surfing majestic waves in
Northern California.

Chris Haugen has just joined reapandsow's family of artists. Come out and support Chris at the following shows, you will not be disappointed with his talents.

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

Mill Valley Masonic Hall

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Yoshi's SF

Solo songs, Seahorse Rodeo tunes, and more.

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Connecticut Yankee

Chris Haugen, Steve Adams, Trevor Garrod, and Dave Brogan play songs by Beck.

Please visit http://www.chrishaugen.net for all news and tourdates

Please visit his store at reapandsow

Seahorse Rodeo Review on Jambase - Dennis Cook

The challenge with instrumental records, especially ones that step outside neat genre lines, is to be more than an exhibition of chops, to
relate stories sans words using melody, nuance, texture, etc. The best
albums in this field have a resonance that's as deep as anything with
fine lyrics. There is a human voice that speaks from within well played
instruments in service of well crafted pieces, and Chris Haugen's sumptuous tales on Seahorse
Rodeo broadcast just this sort of narrative humanity.

From the suitably liquid play of the title cut to the hot swing echoes on "Bump Bump Bump" to the dark night of the soul inside "Shadow," Haugen creates compelling spaces full of color and detail,
where the simple suggestive power of the titles becomes something
sweeter and more compelling inside the tune's themselves. Largely built
around his extraordinary Weissenborn lap steel playing (though he's no
slouch on anything with strings here), each track is layered with
terrific small touches, some courtesy of talented chums like
percussionist Matt Butler, upright bassist Mike
Sugar and vintage keys tickler Mark de Gil Antoni
(love that Mellotron, man!). However, the vision here is Haugen's own,
and much like the first time one encounters Leo Kottke's 6- and
12-String Guitar or Michael Hedges' Breakfast In The Field,
one knows swiftly that they're in the presence of a singular voice. Seahorse
Rodeo is a serious pleasure, by turns meditative, moving or just
plain enjoyable, a work that pulls inspiration from multiple genres and
thus makes country cousins of jazz men and folk travelers, ambient
explorers and classical ramblers.