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New Album

New 6 track album available for stream and free download here:
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Hell and Half of Georgia streaming music

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two songs from our self titled e.p.



Hell and Half of Georgia - CA.
Hell and Half of Georgia - Bellingham




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hell and half of georgia gots a second oc fair show.

HIjacked OC Fair show. playin' under an assumed name.

live @ th juke joint 3/13/10

Saturday June 5.. Alex's Bar in Long Beach.

saturday 4/24 in Hollywood

legendary haunt of Tom Waits and Neil Young. cheap, stiff drinks. best Hollywood-freaks in town.

T-shirts available.

ten bucks for you, traitor.

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First Show Film

First Show. March 13

record reviewed by NOW THIS SOUND IS BRAVE

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Monday, February 15, 2010

Hell and Half of Georgia: You Could Fix Me Up with a Smile

Okay, here's what you do: Go download Hell and Half of Georgia's self-titled album, play it through once, then set it aside and go do something else.

Now, come back and listen again. 

The first thing you'll notice is that you've gotten adjusted to the raggedness of Sean Fahlen's voice and can now hear the sweet center of it. The second thing you'll notice is that the band's simple and friendly melodies have already lodged themselves in your brain. These are the best kind of country songs, made of heart and backed by solid musicianship. These songs feel like they belong inside a barn that has been cleared for a dance or at an old gas station during a rest stop on a long roadtrip through the dusty Southwest. When you listen to these songs, you feel like you're listening to good friends play. And you can practically feel the sun of the band's homestate of California shining down on your skin (which is very helpful as I sit next to a Cleveland window through which I can see several inches of Ohio snow - thanks, boys).

Hell and Half of Georgia - made up of Sean Fahlen, Kevin Burwick, Mike Troolines, Charlie Breneman and Captain Ed Brady - don't have a label and, at the time of this writing, they are preparing to play their first show. But they are not new to the world of music-making, and, as Fahlen puts it, "we gots our fill of chasing any music dreams". HaHoG began as a two-man (Fahlen and Burwick) project that they ended up liking so much that they decided to turn it into a full-fledged band, just for the love of the music and sharing the music. "[W]e just wanna play some songs," says Fahlen, "tour round th southwest in a 88 chevy van with no radio, drink some whiskey nd make new friends along th way." They back up this philosophy by offering their album for free to anyone who wants to download it. "[W]e are putting our music out for this moment here, you diggin it and sharing your feedback with us and anyone else that you want to share something you like with." 

"Sharing and connecting" could be a rally cry for HaHoG, putting them in good company with NTSIB favorites the Felice Brothers and A.A. Bondy. They will put in their time with websites and Facebook pages because they know these tools are a useful means to an end, but what they want most is to "connect person to person when we can". In an unrelated conversation, Fahlen said, "[S]ometimes runnin round th country playin music pays off. [N]ot literally pays rent that is, but pays off one way er another..."

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Sean Fahlen, Kevin Burwick, Capt. Ed Brady, Mike Troolines and Charlie Breneman. photo by Mark Paul Deren.

BLISSS Magazine reviews th record

what it is.

Another road, another aching heart; these are the things we have resigned ourselves to, here in twenty first century America. With a cocktail of weariness and restlessness; like a speedball, American music carries on down a long dusty road: because it has to. But it's just too damn lonesome to go that road alone, so we form brotherhoods, we construct families, we lash ourselves together in bands.
These boys have been friends for ten-fifteen year or more. There is even two generations of family in there too. Sean Fahlen, Kevin Burwick, Capt. Ed Brady, Mike Troolines, and Charlie Breneman; these are a bunch of boys-Men-players helping each other along with their load of weary and restless tunes, thru Hell And Half Of Georgia.
This is music that is just trying to get down THAT path, one step at a time, in search of a little shade and water. This is music that claws, sometimes flailing-ly, at the road with slide guitar, harmonica and trash can percussion. This is music that awakens the sleeping drifter inside us all, and forces us to look toward the horizon. 
As Americans, we must eventually come to terms with with the fact that our national spirit is forever linked to the Horatio Algiers and the Woody Guthries. These boys understand that, but then are also presented with a conflict. This band is made up of born-and-raised southern Californians, and what exactly is one to do when their D.N.A. is encoded with the pioneer spirit, and they are born inside the chalk lines, where the frontier finally ran out of room and dried up under the noon day Sun. This is new American Music for a new American problem. Or, as Buddyhead recently described it- "This is New American Folk, reclaimed from the hippies".

BUDDYHEAD review of th record

"It’s new American folk, reclaimed from the hippies." -Tall Pat @ Buddyhead




















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