Hal Brolund (aka Manitoba Hal) tempers his finger picking style with a sharp sense of humour and gritty lyrics punctuated by the smooth slide of a veteran blues master. Hal's got a songwriter's roots in eerie folk - murder ballads and killer floods - and a player's roots in the deep, dark, fixin' to die blues. This is a man who can sing the word "lonesome" like he means it. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.