Haole Wolf

Members
David Christman (always) Brian Goodman (sometimes) Scott Evans (occasionally) Sophia Travis (The Tango Lesson)
About

David Paul Christman: I am a Hoosier, born in Michigan City and living most of my adult life in Bloomington. In the late 1990s, while traveling often to the Big Island of Hawai'i for work, I learned to play the ukulele and slack-key guitar. I created the band/alter-ego Haole Wolf as a midwife to the many sad, silly and sentimental songs I seem to need to write to remain sane. Haole is the Hawaiian term for caucasian (sometimes used in derogatory fashion; perfect for a blues name) and wolves once roamed wild in Indiana, so the name seemed to span ocean and forest, past and present. Howlin' Wolf, was, of course a kick-ass blues player from Chicago who could tear up the guitar and microphone (and sang one of my favorite songs: "Built For Comfort") ... so Haole Wolf seemed perfect for a  crazy silly ukulele blues imaginary song-writing ghost singer.

I write a lot of songs, record in the DIY Lo-Fi high style and perform occasionally, mostly at house parties (often when the stereo shorts out and the show must "go on" using a four-stringed kid's guitar in the back closet). Sometimes I make up songs on the spot, which, let me tell you, is always a good time. I write music for the sheer joy of creation and every time I sing a song I wrote, it feels both like a re-creation and recreation.

You can search Haole Wolf on the Google and find many, many (many, many) songs. The ones here on MFT celebrate Hoosierdumdittydom -- with songs from a childhood up near Lake Michigan and a muchoftherestofmylifehood closer to the Ohio and Wabash rivers, in the hometown of Hoagy Carmichael, down the road from the childhood home of Cole Porter. 

Albums

Another Cole Porter

14 songs

Another Cole Porter
3:38
Yoga Girls Are Sad -- Live at the Buskirk-Chumley
2:53
I Have to Sing -- Live at the Buskirk-Chumley
3:32
The Tango Lesson -- Live at the Buskirk Chumley Theatre
6:09
Percy's Eating Japanese
3:01
My Tiny Mom, Morels
1:50
Little Zen Sandbox
5:40
Tattoo Lady
3:14
Where's My Zucchini?
1:38
Furniture Man
3:10
Shari's On Her Bike
4:52
Trunk Full of Ukes
3:48
I Love Dandelions
4:44
Plucked Little Gardenia
3:00

My Mother Collected Chickens

6 songs

South Shore Line
5:22
We're Going to the Beach!
3:42
My Mother Collected Chickens
6:14
The Funeral Director
2:34
Dead Alewives
5:40
Ice Storm at the Ice-Carving Festival
4:30