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THE FOGHORNS are proud to introduce A Diamond as Big as the Motel 6

Demos will be posted at www.myspace.com/thefoghorns

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Introducing the fifth album from Seattle anti-folkers The Foghorns. Listen to it here:

Embedded to stream in order:

1. Rose

2. Old Bachelors in Cleveland

7. Get Out the Shovel

8. I Hope I Never Do You Wrong

9. Sleepy Waltz

10. Red Raccoon

Or listen on imeem here:

A Diamond as Big as the Motel 6

Who are The Foghorns?

Started when Bart Cameron went home to Wisconsin after a rough series of events from 2001-2002 in Brooklyn, The Foghorns began as a rock/ bluegrass amalgam. Cameron recorded with Wisconsin musicians Kevin and Steve Firchow, then performed in Brooklyn with help from New York musicians, including The Cobble Hillbillies. Bart Cameron left the US for Iceland on a Fulbright, and a year later The Foghorns began touring Iceland with just guitar and a large bucket. That bucket player, Paul Nikolov, eventually joined the Icelandic Parliament. Cameron recruited an Icelandic lineup, The Foghorns released CDs with buckets and with other instruments, and they have been featured at the Iceland Airwaves music festival, in addition to playing Icelandic festivals including Innipukinn. The Icelandic lineup toured the US in 2006, then Bart stayed behind in America. In 2008, Katie and Rich Quigley of Blue, Pig helped Bart form a US-based group. They are distributed by the Wisconsin-based record label Beefy Beef Records

The blog World's Biggest Corporation once wrote the following paragraph about us:
In the middle of some frozen nowhere, a man is warming up his poor raggedy ass in a cabin, sipping whiskey and dreaming of home. He'd probably feel a lot better if he could hear The Foghorns, a band that recorded much of its album New Low after a wearying trip from its Reykjavik base to Brooklyn. Wisconsin native Bart Cameron and his Icelandic pals play bluesy, folky tunes that make reliable companions in the middle of this shitball winter. It's the kind of music that tired people play best..."

THIS is what Edinburgh's The List had to say about The Foghorns:

The Foghorns - Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, Wed 5 Aug 2009

There’s something dark at the melancholy heart of lead Foghorn Bart Cameron’s country-tinged missives of loves past, present and possible. On a low-key two-date Scottish stopover in a stripped-back duo format, some-time Reykjavik resident Cameron’s downbeat demeanour is offset by the honeyed counterpoint of co-vocalist Katie Quigley in a short set of gentle heartbreak. Standing side by side, Cameron in vintage suit, Quigley swaying with hands in print frock pockets, and with only their voices and an acoustic guitar for company, a doleful harmonica sets the tone, with most songs drawn from this year’s Beefy Beefy Records release, ‘A Diamond As Big As The Motel Six.’

Cameron’s milieu is old-time booze-soaked laments deep-fried with dust-bowl languor. The delivery is as contrary to the band name as possible, with only the throwaway rites-of-passage boogie of ‘Brooklyn Bridge,’ when the're joined by Iceland's own Benni Hemm Hemm on drums, coming close to bottle-smashing clatter. Cynicism and idealism step out together on ‘Old Bachelors in Cleveland,’ a gentle sneer at aging singletons

once the narrator’s own true love has come calling. This was presumably written before the adulterous smooch of ‘Sleepy Waltz,’ which, like a Raymond Carver miniature set to a slowed-down n’ woozy melody from The Velvet Underground’s ‘I’m Sticking With You’, shuffles through its after-hours liaison with a set of conflicting emotions that are as bittersweet as they are unrepentant in a swoonalong song worth staying out late for.

And this is what The Reykjavik Grapevine said:

Sometimes you just want to kick back with a beer and listen to some high quality tunes without all the bullshit. The Foghorns have it covered with their folky jams. The band – a beloved mainstay on the Reykjavík scene a couple of years back, until they relocated to the US of A – are making their return to Reykjavik to celebrate the release of their fifth album, A Diamond As Big As the Motel 6, written and recorded in the American Northwest. The Foghorns are a tried and tested live band, their melodies are sweet and the accompanying lyrics (by former Grapevine editor-slash-legend Bart Cameron) make the mix one not to be missed.
Also performing at the show is the one and only Benni Hemm Hemm, who has long since ensured his status as one of Iceland’s favourite musicians. The show will be held at Grand Rokk, July 29th, at 9 p.m. Sit back and enjoy the music – this night is not to be missed.

And The Weekly Volcano:

THE FOGHORNS

Wednesday, May 20
The more I learn about Seattle’s self-described “mavericks of anti-folk,” The Foghorns, the less I seem to know. And the more I want to learn. And the harder this article becomes to write.

I should have never interviewed Foghorns frontman and founder Bart Cameron. Everything I needed for a boilerplate riff was right there on their MySpace page: good tunes, a fun bio, even some tasty quotes. (My favorite: “If Bob Dylan recorded a Philip Roth novel with Crazy Horse as a backup band, that would be an enormous influence.”) But no, I had to peer into the soul of The Foghorns. I had to know: What-makes-you-tick?

So I met Bart Cameron at The Red Hot for beers, and now I’m just confused. How do you tell the story, in 325 words, of a band that started in Wisconsin, and then shifted to Brooklyn, and then Iceland (Cameron scored a Fulbright to study there), and then back to Wisconsin, and finally to Seattle? Oh, and then there’s the part about how Cameron was underground on the subway — under Ground Zero, that is — when the World Trade Center fell. And don’t forget the time he was electrocuted onstage at a festival because the third-place contestant from Icelandic Idol had spilled a bunch of water and Cameron’s shoes had holes in them because he was poor as hell, so when he stepped up to the microphone … bzzzzzzzzz! And was that in Reykjavik or Keflavik? And which one did you call “The Detroit of Iceland?” And was that with the full lineup, or just you and the bucket player? And what kind of bucket are we talking? Plastic? Metal? About how big?

The Foghorns’ music is a lot like their story: messy, weird and utterly captivating. Whether it’s just Cameron and a bucket man or the current ensemble of five, their songs rattle and ramble like good tavern tales. They beget more questions than answers. And you always want another round. — Mark Thomas Deming

TOURING MEMBERS: Bart Cameron, Katie Quigley, Rich Quigley, Kristjan Oli Petursson, Bara Sigurjonsdottir.

For more info, visitwww.thefoghorns.com, or www.myspace.com/thefoghorns.