Haught concert at Creative Life Church

WAYNE HAUGHT, singer-songwriter from northern California to perform country gospel one night only, June 29, 7 p.m. at Creative Life Church, 229 Bayard Street.

Tickets are $5 pre-sale at Golden Leaves Bookstore, downtown Hot Springs at Malvern Avenue and Court. Tickets are $7 at the door.

For more information call (501) 617-6610 or (501) 463-7731.

WWW.WAYNEHAUAGHT.COM


"The Crying Kind," Wayne's debut CD, was released in the fall of 2011 to positive reviews. The Midwest Record said "Wild . . . a country gospel set that comes from someplace so deep it can't be an act and it can't help but affect you. Organic doesn't come any better than this." Wayne simply calls it, "Gospel like you never heard it before."


Link to Wayne on youtube singing his song, “If you bring the love with you it’s there when you get there.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwxdj19_5wI

Wayne wrote the 12 songs on “The Crying Kind” after his mother died. “I was trying to find my spiritual path and realized after she made her transition,” says Wayne, “that I couldn’t move forward until I went back and healed the fear-based view of Christianity our parents taught me.”

Wayne’s songs are about walking bibles, backslider's wine, catching hell, and Bible beaters before an enthusiastic crowd. A natural born entertainer, his high lonesome singing style anchors a solo stage show that delights audiences as it confounds their expectations of what will come next.

Will he pick an Appalachian banjo tune? Thump a stomp-a-long call to glory on a flattop guitar? Sing an a cappella number from just this side of the grave?

It is the songs Wayne writes that twist the conventions of gospel music into seemingly unconventional but instantly recognizable meanings:

Wayne honed his performance skills by playing country and rockabilly music for East Bay alt rockers. He once captivated the crowd at Berkeley’s punk rock institution 924 Gilman Street by playing nothing but Johnny Cash songs.

DIRECTIONS TO CREATIVE LIFE CHURCH, HOT SPRINGS:

Take Central (Hwy 7) to the light at Trivista, just north of the race track. Bear right on Trivista, then turn right on Talisman. Turn left on Hollywood. At the 4th street, turn right on Bayard. We’re up about a block on the left at 229 Bayard.

From Malvern Ave turn west on Hollywood at the NPMC (National Park Medical Center) Hospital. Cross Shady Grove Road then turn left on Bayard to 229 Bayard. Take Central (Hwy 7) to the light atnorth of the race track. Bear on the left at 229 Bayard. From Malvern Avenue turn west on Holly.