Sunshine And The Shadows – seventeen songs, 62 minutes.

Fourteen original songs, one of them co-written with Fred Grittner, one with Fred and Ron Beliveau, three cover songs.

Folk, Rock, Blues, Americana and Jazz

Songs about loss, danger, the tricks memories play, hope, joy, comfort, fools, gangsters and sex. Some funny ones.

Thanks to Fred Grittner, who played mandolin and lead guitar and mastered the album, and to Claudia Wichmann, who sang background vocals.

Daniel Tappe created the promo video.

The album as well as individual songs can be downloaded via

janhauenstein.bandcamp.com

For physical cds, email janhauenstein@gmx.de

The 2020 album – 2020 Vision, due to be published 09 September 2020.

16 songs. One hour of music. Interesting arrangements, I have been told.
Songs that tell a story, tunes for our grandkids, political songs, the angry kind, quirky songs.
Folk, Americana, Europeana, blues, rock, jazz.

12 originals, one of them co-written with Fred Grittner, one with Terry Lee Ransom.
Four covers.

Not 20-20 vision, 2020 Vision. See cover.

Big thanks to Fred Grittner who gave advice, mastered the album and played guitar,
Claudia Wichmann who sang background vocals and Charlie Woodward who also played guitar.
Daniel Tappe created the promo video. Thank you!

2020 Vision is dedicated to Tomke Hauenstein and John Prine.

Bandcamp is the new place now. All albums uploaded.

CDBaby always happily shouted ‘We love you!’ – no matter how inappropriate the occasion. Now they have shown us artists how much they love us by closing down their store.
For quite a few artists a major portion of their income was generated via said store.
Many thanks, CDBaby. At the moment a few links on my webpage lead nowhere.
So I looked around a bit and asked my friend Fred Grittner for advice. He recommended Bandcamp.  Thanks, Fred!
Have uploaded the 2019 and 2018 albums, the others will follow as time allows.
Songs and albums can be uploaded there. For physical cds, email janhauenstein@gmx.de

https.//janhauenstein.bandcamp.com

Hello Jan,

…. Got my third listen in today. …
If I don´t mention a song, it´s because I haven´t heard it clearly enough to comment.
LOVE TOO LATE – Well spoken, touched some old cords (and chords) with me. Has a nice roundness to it.
NO NAME – Good! Thank you. Well set, with the kind of spooky tune and accompaniment.
I´ve called those attacks consummate acts of cowardice – which they are, but then Miller Williams´ poem “Compassion” reminds me “You do not know what wars are going on / down there, where the spirit meets the bone.” …
THIEF Of DANCES – Couldn´t get it all, but enjoyed the contrast between the grisly sounding words and the jolly sounding accomp’ment.
TWO – Lovely. Never heard this idea so clearly, personally stated. Music very interesting, especially @ the end.
SICK – Nice use of 2 vocal textures.
GLORIOUS FALLEN – 1. Good singing 2. Good song. I´m going to send this CD to Alan Magee – artist/re-becoming musician doing a great job of speaking truth to power, internationally – I´m beginning to think of you two in the same breath.
MAYA WALKING – Nice to write a song about – heartwarming – and I like the light touch w/ the percussion.
UNEXPECTED – I got most of it. Good work. GREAT guitar solo!
FARAWAY TOM –  …. You set it very nicely – put it in a good place-to-go-to.
PAST FORWARD – You nailed this one, idea and delivery. Good music, GREAT ending.
THAT BORDER AGAIN – I loved the choice – simplicity – of using this to end the album. Great use of voice.
(OOPS – The Robert Johnson blues was very well done, singing was clear, music was a nice tribute but very much your own.)
All in all, Jan – this strikes me strongest of anything I´ve heard of yours.
The music is varied in structure, genre and approach, the “band” has never sounded as strongly in your groove. ….
There´s fine, clear, strong statements here, well anchored in historic reality, and you´re singing them honestly and very well. I find the whole thing stunning, and very essential to these times.
An excellent piece of work, my friend.

Long may you rave.

Gordon

A children´s songs album in German. You English-speaking folks will probably not be that interested,
so I will continue in German.

Vor ungefähr sechs Wochen schrieb unsere Tochter Lena sinngemäß:
Die meisten CDs mit Kinderliedern sind süßlich und überproduziert.
Du bist Musiker und hast Zeit…
Und dann sandte sie mir eine Liste mit Kinderliedern, die Leevke mag.

Ich schrieb flugs ein neues Kinderlied (Die Siebenbürgener haben sieben Beine…),
ein paar neue Texte, wenn mir die deutsche Übertragung nicht gefiel (‚Twinkle, Twinkle,
Little Star‘ ist nun ‚Leuchte mir, du kleiner Stern‘), Textergänzungen, einen neuen Text
für das schöne Volkslied ‚Zogen einst fünf wilde Schwäne‘. Nun ‚Grunzten einst fünf wilde Schweine‘.
Dann arrangieren, kurze Zwischenspiele schreiben, Gitarre spielen, singen.
Fast fertig. Feine Fotos, Daniel Tappe kümmert sich um die Druckvorlagen.
Mein Freund Fred Grittner in St. Paul hat gestern den Sound veredelt.
Dann zum Presswerk. Spätestens am 12. Dezember sollte ich die CDs haben.
Kinderlieder ohne Zuckerguss.

Sie können nur direkt bei mir bestellt werden, janhauenstein@gmx.de

Ich werde in den nächsten Tagen zwei, drei Lieder zum lauschen hochladen.
Es sind 24 Werke, zum Teil folkorientiert, es gibt aber auch Polkas, Tex-Mex und Boogies.

Unsere Schwägerin Brigitte hat ein frühes Demo bekommen und schreibt:
Hallo Jan, die Kinderlieder sind dir wahrlich gut gelungen! Glückwunsch!
Mein Lieblingslied sind die 5 wilden Schweine. Schön dass du die Mädchen darin erwähnst –
die werden mächtig stolz sein.
Gibt´s die CD noch vor Weihnachten? Hau´ rein, sie wird super!
Herzliche Grüße und Danke für den Spaß beim Hören!
Brigitte