Ha Ha Tonka, Ludo, Meese, Without a Face

Friday, November 13, at the Prophet Bar

Comments (0) By Roy Kasten Saturday, Nov 14 2009

Ha Ha Tonka caught the new wave of ersatz old-time stompers and pickers churned up by the Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show, but the Springfield, Missouri, band rides the twang with an idiosyncratic style and the electric confidence of self-made Ozark shit-kickers.

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The title of the band's 2009 album, Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South, only sounds pretentious in title. Inspired by the prose of Harold Bell Wright, the song cycle captures the haunted past and present of the Southern Midwest the band knows so well: The political corruption, the seething racism and the hellfire ideology are as real as the crackling seams of their harmonies and the bursting zeal of their guitars.

Ha Ha Tonka is literate all right, but its songs are etched in the spontaneous script of rock 'n' roll.

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