Woodrow Hart & the Haymaker

Product of Chicago, the beating heart of the Midwest, Woodrow Hart & the Haymaker blend urban grit with country soul to form what Uncle John Prine would call "a band that plays for keeps." A true songwriter, Hart writes lyrics which evoke the timeless storytelling of famous Windy City wordsmiths like Prine, Carl Sandburg, and Shel Silverstein while twangy guitars and soaring trumpet share space with harmonies that echo The Band at their most raucous. Woodrow Hart & the Haymaker steep their sound in folk, country, and blues traditions without paying much mind to the rules of any of them, bending conventions like prairie grass in the wind, yawping and, at times, sweetly crooning a beer-soaked toast to wood-paneled basements and front-porch jam sessions under a clear night sky.