The Pine Hill Haints

As part of the Filey Americana Festival

Not many bands can claim that they were formed in a cemetery. But it was a perfect and appropriately poetic setting for the birth of roots music trailblazers The Pine Hill Haints.

Just to address the obvious, the word “haint,” of archaic English origin, means to haunt or to inhabit aggressively.

And with a medium-like connection, The Haints have spent the last two decades resurrecting all kinds of music that has passed out of the mainstream – in a style they call “Alabama Ghost Country.”

On the band’s latest long-player, The Song Companion of a Lonestar Cowboy, they go there and to other colorful places on the Americana and Appalachian trail.

The Haints do something very few roots bands can, which is to transcend influences and sculpt age-old sounds into soul music for our time.

Support from Yorkshire’s own folk and country troubadour, Serious Sam Barrett.

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