Haley Bonar
Haley Bonar (born 1983, Brandon, Manitoba) is an American alternative count… Read Full Bio ↴Haley Bonar (born 1983, Brandon, Manitoba) is an American alternative country singer-songwriter who hails from South Dakota. She has lived in Duluth and St. Paul, Minnesota. In July 2009, she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she spent a year writing songs for her newest album Golder.
She plays mostly acoustic guitar and a rhodes or wurlitzer organ, either solo or with her Minneapolis-based band, including Jeremy Ylvisaker and Mike Lewis of Andrew Bird fame, as well as long time band mates Luke Anderson on drums and Jacob Hanson on guitar.
In 2003 Bonar's album . . . The Size of Planets (Chairkicker's Union) received favorable reviews in the Minneapolis press. The album spawned the single "Am I Allowed," which was played on college radio stations. Bonar was 20 years old when the album was released, and did a number of tours with Duluth band Low upon its release. She also toured with the likes of Mason Jennings, Richard Buckner, and Mary Lou Lord, who was also, for a time, Bonar's manager.
In 2006 she released the album Lure the Fox, originally on Mary Ellen Recordings, whose owner, Mary Lewis, decided to help Bonar pay to record the album at Pachyderm Studio after reading a Star Tribune article about her in 2005. Dave King of Happy Apple and The Bad Plus plays drums, Chris Morrissey plays bass, and the album features Low's Alan Sparhawk on the track "Give it Up." Also on that track is David Frankenfeld, Bonar's former drummer, who played on The Size of Planets. One year after Lure the Fox was recorded, Bonar signed with local label Afternoon Records, who then released the album nationally in October 2006.
Lure the Fox earned Bonar two Minnesota Music Awards, one for Best American Roots recording, and another for Best American Roots artist. The album also topped many Twin Cities year-end favorite lists, including those of the Star Tribune, City Pages, The Onion, and Pulse magazine. Bonar was also featured on the cover of Metro magazine.
Big Star, released in June 2008 on Afternoon Records, gained Bonar a broader audience with songs like "Big Star," "Green Eyed Boy," and "Arms of Harm," which was featured on the credits for an episode of HBO's The United States of Tara. The songs "Queen of Everything," "Big Star," and "Something Great" were also featured on MTV's show Teen Moms in 2009/2010.
Upon completion of her album Golder, she also started a side project band called Gramma's Boyfriend, a "no-wave, new wave, punkish kind of thing that sounds like the Twin Peaks High School prom band". Bonar started a Kickstarter campaign in February 2011 in order to raise money to promote and tour her upcoming record. She played the 2011 SXSW music festival in March, released the album in April, and toured it summer 2011.
- wikipedia
She plays mostly acoustic guitar and a rhodes or wurlitzer organ, either solo or with her Minneapolis-based band, including Jeremy Ylvisaker and Mike Lewis of Andrew Bird fame, as well as long time band mates Luke Anderson on drums and Jacob Hanson on guitar.
In 2003 Bonar's album . . . The Size of Planets (Chairkicker's Union) received favorable reviews in the Minneapolis press. The album spawned the single "Am I Allowed," which was played on college radio stations. Bonar was 20 years old when the album was released, and did a number of tours with Duluth band Low upon its release. She also toured with the likes of Mason Jennings, Richard Buckner, and Mary Lou Lord, who was also, for a time, Bonar's manager.
In 2006 she released the album Lure the Fox, originally on Mary Ellen Recordings, whose owner, Mary Lewis, decided to help Bonar pay to record the album at Pachyderm Studio after reading a Star Tribune article about her in 2005. Dave King of Happy Apple and The Bad Plus plays drums, Chris Morrissey plays bass, and the album features Low's Alan Sparhawk on the track "Give it Up." Also on that track is David Frankenfeld, Bonar's former drummer, who played on The Size of Planets. One year after Lure the Fox was recorded, Bonar signed with local label Afternoon Records, who then released the album nationally in October 2006.
Lure the Fox earned Bonar two Minnesota Music Awards, one for Best American Roots recording, and another for Best American Roots artist. The album also topped many Twin Cities year-end favorite lists, including those of the Star Tribune, City Pages, The Onion, and Pulse magazine. Bonar was also featured on the cover of Metro magazine.
Big Star, released in June 2008 on Afternoon Records, gained Bonar a broader audience with songs like "Big Star," "Green Eyed Boy," and "Arms of Harm," which was featured on the credits for an episode of HBO's The United States of Tara. The songs "Queen of Everything," "Big Star," and "Something Great" were also featured on MTV's show Teen Moms in 2009/2010.
Upon completion of her album Golder, she also started a side project band called Gramma's Boyfriend, a "no-wave, new wave, punkish kind of thing that sounds like the Twin Peaks High School prom band". Bonar started a Kickstarter campaign in February 2011 in order to raise money to promote and tour her upcoming record. She played the 2011 SXSW music festival in March, released the album in April, and toured it summer 2011.
- wikipedia
More Genres
No Artists Found
More Artists
Load All
No Albums Found
More Albums
Load All
No Tracks Found
Genre not found
Artist not found
Album not found
Search results not found
Song not found
Haley Bonar Lyrics
Anyway Rattlesnake Rattlesnake take my hand, wake me up, lead me back I…
Arms of Harm You've been keeping something from me baby By now maybe, it…
Bad for You Everything's bad for you honey, Everything's bad for you Don…
Better Half What happened to you? You used to be punk Now they've fill…
Better than me Way back in the center of my mind There′s a building…
Big Star you can dress yourself up put on a little bit of…
Bless This Mess Mom and Dad took me to church, To learn the Word, And…
Called You Queen Born in the spring, I've always needed Something to feel new…
Candy Machine Gun We began where we began Same old story with a different…
Captain Captain Rain, Rain all the way from Texas How I'd love to…
Car Wreck 40 miles south of baker I fell out of my car I…
Daddy When daddy comes home he’ll have a box of presents,…
Daisy Girls I want some candy I want a tall glass of water I…
Devilish Man I fell in love with a devilish man He was the…
Drinking Again My old friend He don't think or feel a thing He asks…
Eat For Free While I quietly throw though the air All your little jokes A…
From A Cage If I washed my clothes and I combed my hair Would…
Give It Up Lie in my bed And think of all the things That I…
Green Eyed Boy Morning's broken the night is gone What have we become some…
Hawaii 缂栬緫: marshallvivi QQ: 729410708 鐚?挭鍥炴潵鍚?鐙楃嫍涓€鐩村湪绛変綘 Take me …
Holiday In Outer Space All hands on deck I hope you packed your medicine The …
Hometown All grown up, saving up for my exit Let it burn…
I Can Change Lit from underneath I get so high The swords fall from…
Kill The Fun San Francisco lives beyond Looking down the road and traveli…
Kismet Kill I lick the salt and toss my hair Don't I remind…
Last War It's not as cool as me As you bend the clock The…
Mayday Mayday, I'm sorry bout the weather Hold me, closer than eve…
Quiet Breathing Make my bed on a pallet of linen Lay my head…
Raggedy Man Raggedy man, raggedy man I don't wanna be your raggedy Ann …
Ransom I think it's hard time we paid the ransom We can't…
Razor That Wins Coffee stains on my dress And marks on my hands Its all…
Silver Zephyrs Tried hard to leave the earth, but the strings pulled…
Skynz So something′s gotten to your head No matter where you go…
Stupid Face I miss the heart that does a cannonball Into a frosted…
Sun Don Before I lay my head to rest Gonna get on a…
Sun Don't Shine Before I lay my head to rest Gonna get on a…
The Queen of Everything Instead of loading the chopper I'd rather roll me a…
Too Much Nothing Before California sank I think we'd both seen brighter da…
Us Dusty vents lie on the floors near the footsteps Your daddy…
Wendy Bird When you close your eyes, what is it you see?* Tall…
Your Mom Is Right Your mom is right about something Your father′s not gonna sa…