Artist: Waitin' On Hayden
Title: Doin' What We Do (2016)
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Self Produced
Genre: Country/Blues/Americana
Quality: MP3 320 Kbps
Total Time: 41:19
Total Size: 100 MB
Tracklist:
1. Lonesome Road (3:16)
2. Bar On University (5:35)
3. Doin' What We Do (5:15)
4. That Girl (3:25)
5. All Night Long (3:58)
6. You Should Be Mine (3:50)
7. I Pick 10 (5:43)
8. Broken Glass And Stolen Signs (4:49)
9. One Way Road (5:23)
Many years ago, two brothers from the small town of La Vernia, Texas, Rusty and Darrell, had a vision of starting a band, but were always told that it was an unreasonable dream, and that they would never succeed. However, one day Rusty decided to travel down that road, regardless of the outcome, and bought an old guitar and an amp from a friend and began teaching himself how to play. Before long, Darrell decided to start learning to play as well, and after a few months and another second hand guitar purchase, a two piece band was formed. "I bought an old 4 string bass guitar from a pawn shop and learned how to play it." said Rusty, "Darrell and I used to sit out in the back yard on Saturday nights at our parents house and play til our mom would get mad at us for being too loud".
After a few years of playing together the duo decided to take the band to the next level and eventually brought in their good friend Hayden Krueger as a lead guitarist, who brought a much needed level of skill to the band with his blues and southern rock influenced style of playing. Shortly afterwards they ran into long time friend Dalton Dennehy while playing guitars at a party, who decided to play the bass for the band despite never playing one before. Quickly the band doubled in size, but still needed to find a drummer, which proved to be an arduous task. The band went through a handful of drummers that all ended up dropping out. One in particular had a decent practice studio set up in his garage, and despite the fact that he lived on the other side of San Antonio, his garage had air conditioning, and so the band would make the hour drive across town to practice on Sunday afternoons one summer. Since the drive was long, they would all meet up at Rusty and Darrell's house, and ride together. However they were usually always mending hangovers from the previous night's events, and found themselves waiting for hours on Hayden to show up, causing them to never be on time. After several occurrences, and jokingly saying when asked, "waitin' on Hayden", again and again the band decided that phrase made a very unique name for the group, which ended their desperate search for a band name.
The band eventually ended up once again without a drummer, but happened to know a friend by the name of Doug Lewis, who hadn't been in a touring band in over three years. After a sunday afternoon tryout jam session the band had made a choice to have Doug as their full time drummer, and finally the band was complete. Until one evening, while doing a live practice session, they ran into an issue with the terribly under powered PA system. With a lack of experience, and an abumdance of drive, they pushed the budget system past it's limits, and ended up losing the entire set up. However, their good friend, Ben Stanush witnessed the disaster, and offered a reasonable solution to the problem. The band managed to round up donors from the community to help fund a suitable system, and with Ben having enough knowledge of technology to properly run everything, the band had finally found someone to sculpt their sound for live performances. As the band started getting more busy with playing shows, it had become a hassle to keep up with marketing, and after there good friend Dariel Raygoza sat in studio with the band one weekend with a go-pro camera recording behind the scenes action, the band decided to bring him in for social media marketing. Dariel also doubles as the band's keyboard player.
With months of trial and error practice, the band Waitin' On Hayden, has become a local favorite, playing at several venues and events in the area. With a wide range of instrumental and vocal talent, the band plays many styles of music from Merle Haggard to Lynyrd Skynyrd. Be sure to come see them play. You won't be disappointed.
