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Manitoba Hal : Come The Ruination
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Acoustic roots and blues slide, heavy-fingered picking and strumming and the sweet sound of a brass slide on a steel guitar.
Genre: Blues: Acoustic Blues
Release Date: 2006
Come The Ruination © Copyright-Hal Brolund
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King of the World 3:44 $0.99
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Album Notes

At 18 Manitoba Hal Brolund began to pursue music. "I was hanging out with a buddy and he was jamming on his acoustic guitar to some record. Suddenly, like a bolt of lightning it hit me. I would play guitar the rest of my life" says Brolund. Choosing a path at 18 isn't that unusual but Hal didn't play guitar yet and in fact had failed high school band! That was in 1986 and he hasn't doubted that vision yet. He played covers in talent shows and open mics and by 1995 he was traveling throughout Manitoba and North Western Ontario playing the bar band circuit with a duo called Cheap Justice playing top 40 jukebox hits with a drum machine. In 1996 he grew disillusioned by the bar circuit and quit to work on songwriting. "I had been writing since I began but never took it seriously" says Hal, "but I started to see that in order to grow as an artist I had to write my own songs." In 1997 Hal recorded a flood relief song at CBC studios called Manitoba's Under Water. This was the start

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REVIEWS

Touched my soul
author: Stephan Fleck
Well what can I say about this album...it´s awesome ! Cool guitars, wonderful melodies and lyrics for and from the heart. This is awesome music !
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Come the Ruination
author: Kal Habana
I first heard this material on SL. Forsythe is tops on my list...had to buy the CD. I absolutely love it!!!
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Come The Ruination
author: Barbara Lavelle
I have had the luck to see Hal LIVE and he puts on a great show! This CD is amazing because you would think it is big studio produced! Hal was talent on the same level as Taj. You will play this one over and over!
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