Haystack Slim & The Broken Arrow Share Whiskey Rainbow

Listen to the Pacific Northwest band’s full-length debut now

June 29, 2025June 29, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments Bad Livers, BR5-49, Don Farwell, Haystack Slim, Haystack Slim and the Broken Arrow, Seattle, Studio Litho, The Old 97's

Haystack Slim and the Broken Arrow (Image: Tiny Human PR)

The Pacific Northwest continues to impress in 2025 with a string of up-and-coming bands bringing an electric charge back into the region that gave us Hendrix, Heart and Nirvana.

One such group worthy of current acclaim is Haystack Slim & The Broken Arrow, a quartet comprised of Oklahoma original Haystack Slim, Tacoma guitar picker Ryan Finley, bassist Joe Filkins, and Tallahassee-born drummer Bradley Stewart.

Together, this outfit crafts a honky-tonk flavored brand of rock ‘n’ roll that speaks to Slim’s tales of addiction, heartbreak and characters straight out of a Louis L’Amour novel.

The band is proud to present to the public their very first full-length recording, appropriately called Whiskey Rainbow. Following up their debut EP, 2024’s Westbound, these songs delve deeper into the symbiotic relationship between country and rock with a PNW feel that makes it all their own.

Haystack Slim and the Broken Arrow Rainbow Whiskey, self-released 2025

The initial tracking took place at the iconic Studio Litho in Seattle, working with engineer Don Farwell (Ryan Lewis, The Black Tones). With the bones of the record complete, the band headed to Finley’s home studio for final overdubs, mixing and mastering.

“We’re really proud of our debut album,” the band tells Rock & Roll Globe in an exclusive quote. “It’s a testament to the rougher edges of experience — mistakes made, lessons learned the hard way, and the stubborn hope that keeps you moving. We draw on the spirit of ‘90s country and American rock and roll, but to me it’s the honesty that stands out: stories of missteps, reckonings and the quiet work of carrying on. These songs don’t preach; they live in the tension between regret and resilience. We don’t shy away from the messy side of life, we just look for something steady in the ride through it.”

Fans of such 90s-era groups as Bad Livers, the Old 97s and BR5-49 should give Whiskey Rainbow a serious listen. The album just came out this past Friday, and you can check it out below.