There's uptempo honky tonk songs and thoughtful ballads from this experienced performer's debut album. This is not cross-over, power-pop, sorta-country. This IS traditional, straight ahead, real South Dakota country.

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COUNTRY: Traditional Country, COUNTRY: Country Rock



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Justin Haigh has been singing in honky tonks since he was barely old enough to stay up that late. Then heâd stay up later and write songs. Those songs had to get past the crowds who new him best in those roadhouses, and by the time he was out of high school, he was a seasoned writer and performer. Stints with bands like âVince Lumby and the Driftwood Buckaroosâ were all part of learning the ropes.
The next few years provided some great song material, but it was not what he wanted forever: a stint in the military, over-the-road trucking, fishing in Alaska, and ranch work made for a hard life, but Justin wasnât any easier on himself.
âI was a bad boy,â he said, but heâs not looking back. Heâs finally doing what he was meant to do: write songs and perform.
Willy Nelson once said that to write a country song you have to tell the truth and make it rhyme. The rhyming part is easy; itâs telling the truth thatâs hard. The truth, as Justin sees it, is that good people die, Daddies miss their kids, and not every love story has a happy ending.
âThere are so many layers in my life,â he says. âIâm not just a cowboy.â