From the earliest blues, to outspoken folk rock protest singers, to heavy legends, to the latest music. Pioneers like Robert Johnson, Son House, Skip James, Guitar Slim, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Howlin' Wolf, Big Mama Thorton, Ray Charles, The Temptations, James Brown. Also Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Ritchie Havens, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson, Elvis Costello and more. To the legends like the Beatles, Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Creme, The Band, The Byrds, Velvet Underground, MC5, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Adrian Belew and more. To the pioneers of alternative rock like Fugazi, Bad Brains, Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sam Phillips, Michael Penn, Aimee Mann, Ani Defranco and more. To later acts like Superchunk, Rage Against The Machine, Radiohead, Primus, System Of A Down, Bjork and many more. Our friends here on Myspace get played as much as the classics.
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We've been compared to Midnight Oil, Nick Cave, early Bob Dylan, Ritchie Havens, Ben Harper, Jesus And Mary Chain, Lou Reed, Ani Defranco, Pete Townsend and Jimmie Page yet with a unique twist that no one else has but our Orphans. Accept no substitute.
Calling out to all people who like original rocking revolutionary protest social change music that totally walks the walk that it talks.
Most of our debut album is listed for free but if you want us to buy strings for a new CD and hold that cute puppy in your hand just let us know. We want to sell this CD because it makes it all happen. And helps make more happen.
Get our scathing debut CD of 10 great songs that will have you folkie rocking in our post punk indie way! It may also cure facial acne, improve your gas mileage, impress girls, raise your SAT scores, and it's already chased off Bush/Cheney! http://cdbaby.com/cd/haymarket
Charles and Jenna Haymarket keep changing their names from time to time to keep from being too famous. You know them and love them already, and if you don't, come on. Why wait? Come enjoy their debut album HAYMARKET ORPHANS one of the coolest indie music releases ever. And more to come.
Positive social change happens slowly. It's not just an ideal of the 1960's. In the1880's working people died for the 8 hour day. Five anarchists were hanged by a murderous legal system that uses the very same tactics and hate speech, but substitutes "Muslim" or "Terrorist" for "Anarchist".
One of the Haymarket Martyrs, Albert Parsons, had two children; Al Junior was 8 and Lulu was 6 when they were forced to see their father hanged. Where do you go with such anger? What to say or do in a world that's been union bashed, civil and human rights denied, red baited, world warred, nuclear bomb scared, Cointelpro'd, Watergated, Vietnamed, wiretapped, consumer distracted, downsized, outsourced, Sept 11th lied to, Iraq War lied to, Gitmo'd and Abu Ghraibed, spied on, stalked, and facing endless debt, spiritual decline, and a trashed Earth?
Charles and Jenna Haymarket wander the Earth as orphans singing songs of protest. They keep changing their names to keep from getting famous. This isn't our parents’ era, and this isn't their folk music. Hear us speak. Speak out yourself! We all live slighted lives as heirs to an unfinished legacy that demands peace and justice. We are all Haymarket Orphans.
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Hey, I've got a new acoustic demo up of my song "Snapshot Chronicles" up now. Feel free to listen, comment, and if you like it tell your friends. If not, that's cool too.
Absolutely no worries about being your interwebby mate!!!!!!
You guys have an attitude that's been in my own heart since as long as I can remember,(I just get a little softer round the edges as I get older :) )
Absolutely LOVE the guitar playing,you thrash it with the same passion as myself,I love to hear acoustics being played like that,nice one!!!!!!!!
Best o luck Charles and Jenna,or whoever you are,I hope you both get to find some happiness amongst the cogs of this messed-up machine we call 21st Century Civilisation (what a fucking joke that phrase is)
Be happy,
you guys enjoy whatever's left of your day,
don't believe anything they tell you,
find your own path,
make your own rules,
bend the truth.
We've all of us got only one very small instant to really feel alive,
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