The Pine Hill Haints

This event took place on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC.

Location: The Pine Hill Haints have spent the last two decades resurrecting all kinds of music that has passed out of the mainstream—in a style they call “Alabama Ghost Country.” On the band’s latest long-player, The Song Companion of a Lonestar Cowboy, they go there. The album kicks off with “Fall Asleep” and “Back to Alabama,” a fiery pair of rockabilly-meets-Irish-jig rave-ups, then winds through standout tracks like the catchy cajun-flavored squeezebox pop of “Lone Star Kid.” Throughout, Barrier’s strong tenor voice rings familiar and friendly, and the band plays with a sense of abandon that comes from thousands of gigs behind them. The Haints do something very few can, which is to transcend influences and sculpt age-old soul music for our time.