Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels walkers, and minstrels in elephant costumes. Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels saw great success, and the impact on minstrelsy was profound. Other troupe owners rushed to compete, mimicking the Mastodons' elaborate sets and large number of players. Ultimately, many smaller companies folded or were forced to travel further from the established minstrel circuits in order to survive. Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels was a blackface minstrel troupe created in 1877, when J. H. Haverly merged four of the companies he owned and managed. Borrowing techniques from showmen like P. T. Barnum, Haverly advertised the Mastodons in broadsides, newspapers,
Mastodon (band) Blackdiamondskye, a portmanteau of the three bands' latest albums ("Black Gives Way to Blue", "Diamond Eyes", and "Crack the Skye"). Film director Jimmy Hayward contacted the band during their 2009 tour of Europe and expressed how much listening to "Blood Mountain" had helped his creative process while finishing a screenplay, and he offered Mastodon a chance to score the film he had been working on - "Jonah Hex". In an interview with "Paste" magazine, bassist Troy Sanders said that Hayward "called us out of the blue as a fan. It was the most beautiful, authentic way to collaborate." Mastodon used