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Horsehead Official Press Kit

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- Maverick Magazine (UK) - May 2009

It has been three years since Horsehead released their debut album RECORD OF THE YEAR. The hard working four piece have built upon what they achieved then to make their grounded, rustic, country-rock second album WELCOME…TO THE HORSEHEAD. They have been living and breathing these songs for some time so they needed to be recorded. It took the band 16 hours and $260 to make which, when considering its quality puts other band’s recent efforts to shame. The first thing that strikes you about WELCOME…TO THE HORSEHEAD is how confident sounding it is and how passionate they come across. In the spirit of the Rolling Stones, Crazy Horse, Free, and the Band, Horsehead give you a record that is full of wonderful harmonies and guitar licks, while providing you with their tales of woe and the demons they have endured. This record evokes thoughts of a band being together on the road and being part of a collective that want to sing the songs that their souls crave to sing.

Jimmy’s song (Ballad Of A Thief) is a song full of emotion with intimate and at times heavy vocals from front man Jon C. Brown. Walk It Off shows them in an alt.country punk mood, a bit like what would happen if Springsteen, AC/DC and the Clash merged and made sweet music together. An interesting thought, but it does work and also shows how versatile this band can be. Hogtown is a wonderful boys’ drinking song about staying in one place. The standout track has to be Too Late to Run a song about not wanting to give up but not really having a choice. A song that wouldn’t sound out of place being played in any stadium, with a tune that you can punch the air to, lyrics you can chant to, backed with some amazing harmonies and guitars. Horsehead blend together a great array of musical influences to make a record that is very much their own. Combining great lyrics, rocking guitars and drums along with powerful vocals to make WELCOME…TO THE HORSEHEAD a truly great alt.country record. - CN

- Magnus Sundel, www.trotsallt.se, Sweden, 2009

From Virginia in the U.S., the band Horsehead, making swings and very charming rock "somewhere between Tom Petty and the Rolling Stones", as themselves. A good stock. Good melodies, good vocals, nice guitars. They write that this disc was 16 hours to record. In this case it is yet another proof that the best rock created in the moment and the interaction. Music for long drive and narrow rock clubs.

- David Huijzer, www.altcountry.nl, Netherlands, 2009

Last year I have the old blog once my 10 seconds rule explained. This CD of Horse Head belongs to the category to which you already know after 10 seconds: this is pretty good. Not because the music is unique, Horse Head mixes country and rock in a fairly traditional manner, but because you hear that men with passion to work. Stones hint, hint Tom Petty, Springsteen touch, but all played with conviction and sung especially with intense enthusiasm. As they say: "it took only 16 hours to track. (...) Recording it was a way to put some demons to rest." Normally I would it all be skeptical, but they speak the truth: from the opening song, the acoustic Heart Breaking Songs through the rockers and ballads in between, until the melancholy valve know Wedding Pictures Horse Head to convince. Welcome to Horse Head is a must for everyone who likes passionate altcountry with a bite and hold.