Last week I had the distinct pleasure of talking to Brian Roberts from Springfield, Missouri’s Ha Ha Tonka over the course of about seven phone calls; we kept getting cut off as the band traveled the desert wasteland between the California coast and those few civilized outposts in Arizona. The band plays a soulful and sometimes surprisingly rocking brand of timeless electric folk imbued with plenty of, but not too much, southern imagery and feel.

The band is currently on tour with Murder by Death. Check out the feature here.