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I Wanna Buy You a Ring: A Chat with Craig Elkins of Huffamoose

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Discography: Huffamoose (7 Records, 1993) We’ve Been Had Again (Interscope, 1997) I Wanna Be Your Pants (Shanachie, 2000) …and that’s when the golf ball hit me in the head (Winding Way Records, 2018) Huffamoose were one of those alt rock bands that broke through at the tail end of the alterna rock boom. Their song "Wait" hit the radio in 1997 and garnered them some modest attention but they became known for the storytelling aspect of their songwriting and that endeared them to a certain ratio of music critics. They had a documentary made about them in the early 2000's that was heralded by Cameron Crowe, they got a song in a JC Penney commercial but they just weren't able to break through in the way their peers had. After releasing a fantastic comeback album in 2018, frontman/guitarist Craig Elkins was cool to chat about their history. Pete Crigler: What got you interested in music? Craig Elkins: The song "Guitar Man" by Bread. Also, my dad us