Ha Ha Tonka–Caney Mountain–part 2

January 31, 2010  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: Country Belt Buckles


The second half of their last song of the set (before the encore) at the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, June 25, 2009, broken into two parts due to a battery issue. A track from their 2007 release, Buckle in the Bible Belt.

Duration : 0:1:47

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Ha Ha Tonka–Caney Mountain–part 1

January 21, 2010  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: Country Belt Buckles


The last song of their set (before the encore) at the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland on Thursday, June 25, 2009, was this track from their 2007 release, Buckle in the Bible Belt. Sadly, it’s broken into 2 parts because the batteries gave out on camera 2 and I had to switch back to camera 1. This is part 1.

Duration : 0:1:40

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Ha Ha Tonka–Bully in the Pulpit

January 20, 2010  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: Country Belt Buckles

A track from their 2007 release, Buckle in the Bible Belt, performed at the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, June 25, 2009.

Duration : 0:3:21

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Ha Ha Tonka–Gusto

January 18, 2010  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: Country Belt Buckles

This track from their 2007 release, Buckle in the Bible Belt, was the first song of their set at the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, June 25, 2009.

Duration : 0:3:18

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Ha Ha Tonka Music Video

January 11, 2010  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: Country Belt Buckles

Music video for the Ha Ha Tonka single “St. Nick” from the album “Buckle In the Bible Belt.” Check out www.hahatonkamusic.com.

Duration : 0:3:54

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Buckle in the Bible Belt

December 04, 2009  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: Country Belt Buckles

The Making of Ha Ha Tonka
A more in depth look at what went in to making the album, and what’s going on with the band now.

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2003 Gibson Les Paul Classic Demo

December 01, 2009  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: Country Belt Buckles

Here’s a video of a 2003 Les Paul Classic played through a Fender Super Sonic amp…no effects, just the built in reverb and gain/distortion. This thing has incredible sustain and weighs in at 9.65 lbs. It is in good condition with no breaks or repairs but has some dings, scratches, and belt buckle rash on the back. It is recorded on the video mode of my old Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera with the built in mic. so please excuse the quality/sound limitations.

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Thanks for watching!
-Howard

Duration : 0:5:39

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James and the Belt Buckle

November 28, 2009  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: Country Belt Buckles

James, Kylie and Simone

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Waylon Jennings& Willie Nelson – Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys

November 21, 2009  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: Country Belt Buckles

Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 February 13, 2002) was an influential American country music singer and musician.
A series of duet albums with Willie Nelson in the late 1970s culminated in the 1978 crossover hit, “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”.

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet and actor.
Along with Nelson, Waylon Jennings was also achieving success in country music in the early 1970s, and the pair were soon combined into a genre called outlaw country (”outlaw” because it did not conform to Nashville standards).

“Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys” is a country music song written by Ed Bruce and Patsy Bruce. It was made famous by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, whose version was first released on their 1978 album Waylon & Willie. The song’s lyrics advise mothers to raise their children as doctors or lawyers rather than cowboys, who seem to be “always alone.”

The Waylon & Willie version peaked at No. 1 in March 1978, spending four weeks atop the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart.

Lyrics:
Cowboys ain’t easy to love and they’re harder to hold
And they’d rather give you a song then diamonds or gold
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi’s each night begins a new day
And if you don’t understand him and he don’t die young
He’ll probly just ride away

Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don’t let ‘em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such

Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They’ll never stay home and they’re always alone
Even with someone they love

Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountian mornings
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
And them that don’t know him won’t like him
And them that do sometimes won’t know how to take him
He ain’t wrong he’s just different
but his pride won’t let him do things to make you think he’s right

Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don’t let ‘em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such

Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They’ll never stay home and they’re always alone
Even with someone they love

Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys

Duration : 0:2:30

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Rock Candy Baby w/ Dick Contino “Teenage Beatnik!” 2001-06

November 16, 2009  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: Elvis Belt Buckles

“Rock Candy Baby” gets the Farmingdale Sound Machine treatment in this excerpt from draft six of the endlessly implausible “I WAS A TEENAGE BEATNIK!” (AND/OR MONSTER FOR THE LITERAL UNDERGROUND) – Carlton J. Lepis gives advice to aspiring bands. Dick Contino turns up in one of several sequences shot in Las Vegas… thanks, Dick – may your belt buckle always be to the side. DV, 16mm, and Super-8 and debris shot 2001-2006 across America. Song recorded solo, 2005.

Duration : 0:5:46

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