New album, ‘Sock It To Me!’, published 29 August 2016

I´m happy to announce that the new album, ‘Sock It To Me!’ is available now!

Published Monday, 29 August 2016.

There are two promo videos in the video section here.

RROARR!!

Some loud songs this time. More blues, boogie and rock music than on the other albums. But they are balanced by jazzy tunes, folky songs, crazy songs.

Comments on the sad and sorry shape of the world (Intelligent Design, Ten Men), songs that will soothe the worried mind (This Love Will Carry), fun songs (Macchu Picchu Big Shoe Circus), some might bring a tear to your eye (I Come And Stand At Every Door, Same Girl), others offer good advice (The Cape) or were written about a special moment (New Year´s Day In South Station).

A nicely mixed batch.

Fred Grittner played electric lead guitar and mandolin and mastered the album, Charlie Woodward played guitar and bass and sang, Claudia Wichmann hummed and sang. Brad DeLong wrote the lyrics for two songs.

67 minutes, big voice, if you like Johnny Cash, Bruce Cockburn and John Stewart, you might like this album.

You may know some of the songwriters that have listened to my music and commented favorably – among others, John Stewart, Gordon Bok, Jez Lowe, Martha Ann Brooks and Dave Moore.

By Jan Hauenstein|September 6th, 2016|Categories: General|0 Comments

Welcome to janhauenstein.com

Ladies and gentlemen,

welcome to my homepage!

You will find some pictures here, a biography, links to a few videos,
and, of course, a music store designed to make me rich and famous.
Plus some links! And you can contact me via clever buttons that say (you guessed, I bet)
‘CONTACT ME’ on the Bio-page and on the Music Store page.

There are full length previews for all the songs of all the albums on the Music Store Page, click on the titles of the albums, that´s where they hide.

Ah, why should you follow the link to bandcamp to download albums or individual songs?
Money, money, money. Sending individual CDs from Germany to, say, the USA, costs a pretty penny or cent.
And on bandcamp you can download all of my albums (or individual songs) in various formats. Good for everybody concerned.

But for each new album there is a pre-order option for the USA, and I pack the CDs, put them in a big parcel, send the big parcel to my friend Art Krause who then unpacks the big parcel and forwards the CDs. You can get a signed CD that way!

But for those of you who dwell in old Europe, this is the place where you can shop to your hearts´ and ears´ desire.

‘Nuff said. Hope you find a few things and songs here that you like.

Best

Jan

P.S. Thanks to Mr. Tappy, without whose technical expertise this homepage probably would be shambolic.