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THE HACIENDA BROTHERS ARE QUITE SADLY NO MORE AS OUR FRIEND CHRIS GAFFNEY HAS PASSED ON (4/17/08) but please do us the honor of being one of the first to experience Dave Gonzalez's new project which shares some of the last Brothers' songs with new audiences and features an all star cast of players in his Stone River Boys.

The late Chris Gaffney of the Hacienda Brothers will be honored by his friend and musical partner Dave Gonzalez who will be touring this summer to celebrate Chris's life and the beautiful release Arizona Motel. The touring will be difficult yet cathartic for Gonzalez. There hasn't' been a tour in the past six years, since his days in the Paladins, that Gaffney hasn't been there right by his side. Yet there is no better way to honor the memory of Chris then to go out and play to the audience that loved him so. This will be a chance for all of Chris’ friends and fans to gather and pay tribute to one of the greatest American music performers in the past 20 years. Gonzalez will also be out supporting the release of the last studio album from the Hacienda Brothers titled Arizona Motel. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to helpgaff.com to aid the family of Chris Gaffney.

Hacienda Brothers: 'Arizona Motel'
by Larry Rodgers - June 6, 2008

The Arizona Republic

The continued evolution of the Hacienda Brothers, so clearly evident on the group's third studio album, is bittersweet because of the loss of co-founder Chris Gaffney shortly after this disc was finished.

The late country crooner and his musical partner, guitarist Dave Gonzalez, aggressively expanded on the "Western soul" sound that they launched in 2005, with the second part of that term taking a front seat here.

Gaffney, who was a master at conveying both loss of love and long-term romantic commitment in his work, pushes his baritone vocals to new heights (and depths) in the stunning Ordinary Fool, the Southern-tinged Used to the Pain and the countrified A Lot of Days Are Gone.

The band shows its hunger for new sounds in the Irish-flavored Uncle Sam's Jail, an anti-war song set in Vietnam but relevant today. The group and Gaffney swing in Soul Mountain and turn to Motown on the piano-fueled Break Free.

Gonzalez, as always, is at the top of his game throughout. Listeners should be thankful that Gaffney and Gonzalez got this disc done in the nick of time.

Meet the band, I mean SUPER BAND:
Chris "Gaff" Gaffney (Dave Alvin, Webb Pearce, Hank Snow and Felin Huskey)- vocals, acoustic guitar, accord ian
Dave Gonzalez (The Paladins) - vocals, electric guitar, "steel-string" and "nylon-string" guitars
Dave "DB" Berzansky-steel guitar
Dale Daniel- drums
Hank Maninger (Chuck Prophet) - electric bass, back up vocals

DALLAS OBSERVER | by Darryl Smyers, September 7, 2006
Dubbed "western soul," the 13 tracks are emotionally deep elegies to times when music was more about the passion than the promotion. Besides stand-out originals such as the title track and "Midnight Dream," Gaffney and Gonzalez have chosen an inspired set of covers that work seamlessly alongside their own songs. Even "Cowboys to Girls," the classic Gamble and Huff chestnut, receives the patented Hacienda pedal-steel upgrade.

NO DEPRESSION | by Robert Baird, September-October 2006 (Live Review)
If Penn was all solo nuance, then the Hacienda Brothers were the band brawn.

AMERICAN SONGWRITER | by Hal Horowitz, September-October 2006
...this is leisurely, stark, emotionally stirring music created by veterans who understand that less is more. Think George Jones fronting The Flying Burrito Brothers; add a windswept spaghetti Western (“Son of Saguaro”) and a rousing Gamble-Huff cover (“Cowboys to Girls”) and you’ve got cosmic American music for the millennium.

STEREOPHILE | by Fred Mills, September 2006
This set marks the second time Penn has gone to the well with the Haciendas. I caught him in concert with Oldham earlier this year, and had to tell him how much I’d enjoyed his protégés’ 2004 debut, The Hacienda Brothers. “If you like that,” Penn replied, grinning broadly, “you’re gonna flip for the new one.” Amen to that.

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | by Tom Roland, August 28, 2006 (Live Review)
Much of the night's lengthy set list harkened back to the smoke-filled dance halls that bred Bob Wills' country-jazz hybrid, Western swing and Ray Price's two-step-ready shuffle beat. With occasional forays into rock, R&B and the blues, the band offered as much sonic swagger and energy as one associates with some of those classic pioneering rock records and the V8 engines that populated the roads.

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