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1. Pushing up daisies
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2. End of the line
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3. Let it ride
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4. Learning to fly
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5. Love spell
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6. Half dome
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7. The wedding song
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8. Find my way
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The goodbye waltz
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10. Medicine man
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11. Nobody cares
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12. War
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13. Concrete Lenny
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14. Let it rain
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15. Rainy day strawberry jamm

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City & State: Garden Grove, CA.

Country: USA

Music Genre(s):: Rock

Bio:: JEFF PORTER- Guitar/Vocals Other projects: China White, The Glory Holes, Mike Martt, Slack, Thump, The Cause, The Scepters. JERRY ADAMOWICZ- Bass/Vocals Other Projects: Dick Clark's New Years Eve, China White and much, much more. SANDY HANCOCK- Drums/Vocals Other projects: 22 Jacks, Thump, China White, Joyride, Adolescents, Mechanics, The Brats. JAMES PALMER- Keys/Vocals Other Projects: Keze, Mitchells, Green Natives, The Swinging Richards, gSpotz, The Occupants. MORE ABOUT MAMA HAGGLIN Mama Hagglin was established in 2002, almost by accident, when (singer) Jeff Porter (China White/Glory Holes/The Cause/Mike Mart) realized that the simple jams he was playing while goofing off with friend Jonny Phish were, in fact, good songs... only the lyrics were missing. Porter contacted former band mate Sandy Hancock (The Mechanics/Adolescents/22 Jacks), explained the situation and they started rehearsals the next week. A band is born now it needed a name. Porter and Phish both agreed that the name needed to tie back to something heavy for them with rock-n-roll nostalgia. Sure enough, while relaxing to a Jimi Hendrix album one day, It happened! they got their name It was on the Blues record (see if you can find Mama Hagglin on it, you have to pay attention). Mama started hitting the clubs, working on the show and grabbing fans. In 2004 bass player Phish left the band for personal reasons. Again Porter placed a phone call to a former band mate. This time he would call Mitch McNally (Tazers/CH3) who seemed to fit right in. The band continued to gain a fan base and up until 2007 stayed a 3 piece act sharing the stages with many fine artists such as Johnny Winter, Eric Burdon, Beth Hart, .38 Special, Mountain, Ten Years After, and it goes on. Porter, being the song writer in the band, had already started working on songs for a new album that would stray slightly from the bands 3 pc. live capabilities. He wanted to explore music and take Mama to new places. In mid 2007, Mama expanded by picking up piano/organist- Jimmy Palmer (G-Spotz, Green Natives) and it was just what Porter needed. Within a quick two months Porter had the band in the recording studio tracking their first studio produced, full length album. In the middle of recording the album, the band replaced bassist McNally with Jerry Adamowicz. Now the bottom end had definition. Sprinkled throughout the album the band incorporated the Cello, Sax, Trumpet, Mandolin, Harmonica, Acoustic & electric 12 & 6 string guitars, Piano & organ, Bass, Drums, and extra percussion. They've released a 3 song single called The Goodbye Waltz, ahead of the Full length album called VIBE. The Goodbye Waltz is up for downloads now, and was officially released April 3, 2008, at Martini Blues, in Huntington Beach, CA. VIBE is available NOW! @ www.mamahagglin.com/vibe.htm The band has committed them selves to bringing the old school spirit of rock and the rock show, back from the grave that evolution stuffed them into as we all went through all the morphing of sounds, beats and textures through the 80's and 90's. They started developing the track for the next album in the summer of 2010 and have hopes of finishing by early 2011. (read less)