Haley Bonar had already recorded an album as a teenager before leaving Rapid City SD for Duluth MN-where she immediately recorded again. Alan Sparhawk heard her at a local Iron Range club one night and a week later she was transformed from a college student to an ambitious dropout with her guitar and a drummer crammed into a Honda Civic opening for Low. She was nineteen years old. That s a story already. But-there is more to this story. In the last decade Haley has released eight more recordings to critical acclaim and mounting success: lots of touring playing festivals capturing awards and artist grants inventive video productions placing song tracks on prime TV shows and popular film appearing on myriad Best-Of lists while continuing to write and perform locally. Oh... and she also had a baby in there somewhere.