Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2014 2:10:30 GMT
The superb voice of Richard Hawley.
This is from his third album "Coles Corner".
How good is this album? At the 2006 Mercury Prize awards do, the very first thing The Arctic Monkeys (who won) said in their acceptance speech was, "Someone call 999, Richard Hawley's been robbed!"
Grandson of a music-hall violinist, with an uncle who played a twin-necked guitar long before Jimmy Page, and with a mother who was a singer on the club circuit in Sheffield, and a father who put together pick-up bands for touring blues-men and who had played onstage with John Lee Hooker, was there ever any doubt that Richard Hawley would become a musician?
These tracks are from his first album 'Late Night Final' . . .
And the gorgeous, hypnotic, 'Can You Hear The Rain, Love' . . .
These tracks are from Richard's second album 'Lowedges'.
After a few early boyhood bands, he eventually found himself in "Longpigs" and toured with Radiohead and U2 among others. But relentless touring took it's toll and Longpigs split.
"Roll River Roll", and 'Tonight the Streets are Ours' are tracks from 2007's album "Lady's Bridge". After getting a call from his friend Steve Mackay to help out in the band Pulp as they were riding the crest of the brit-pop wave, he became a "pop-star". After 3 years or so with Pulp, he realised he wanted to write and record his own material and went solo. He still worked with Jarvis Cocker for many years afterwards . . .
2009's "Truelove's Gutter" saw Hawley finally on his own, but with many years experience under his belt and a collaborators list like a who's who of rock and pop. Think everyone from Marie Presley and Nancy Sinatra, to Arctic Monkeys, The Soulsavers, Paul Weller and Lisa Hannigan, among many, many others.
After many years of Hawley turning out well-produced, singer-songwriter, crooner-friendly tunes, and becoming moderately successful into the bargain, his long-time friend and fellow Sheffield guitarist Tim Mcall died an untimely death. This had the effect of Hawley re-assessing his musical career to date, and asking himself what he'd really like to do musically.
The answer was "Standing at The Sky's Edge", still with the trademark smooth Hawley vocals and intelligent lyrics, but now with a grittier, raw-er, guitar sound, much more like his live persona. With feedback turned up to 11, and the distortion pedal pushed hard down, this was a newer, rougher, and more exciting Hawley. Now the actual sound on the album and the professed admiration for Mark Lanegan made sense. "Standing at The Sky's Edge" was his last album to date, and I eagerly await his next . . .
This is from his third album "Coles Corner".
How good is this album? At the 2006 Mercury Prize awards do, the very first thing The Arctic Monkeys (who won) said in their acceptance speech was, "Someone call 999, Richard Hawley's been robbed!"
Grandson of a music-hall violinist, with an uncle who played a twin-necked guitar long before Jimmy Page, and with a mother who was a singer on the club circuit in Sheffield, and a father who put together pick-up bands for touring blues-men and who had played onstage with John Lee Hooker, was there ever any doubt that Richard Hawley would become a musician?
These tracks are from his first album 'Late Night Final' . . .
And the gorgeous, hypnotic, 'Can You Hear The Rain, Love' . . .
These tracks are from Richard's second album 'Lowedges'.
After a few early boyhood bands, he eventually found himself in "Longpigs" and toured with Radiohead and U2 among others. But relentless touring took it's toll and Longpigs split.
"Roll River Roll", and 'Tonight the Streets are Ours' are tracks from 2007's album "Lady's Bridge". After getting a call from his friend Steve Mackay to help out in the band Pulp as they were riding the crest of the brit-pop wave, he became a "pop-star". After 3 years or so with Pulp, he realised he wanted to write and record his own material and went solo. He still worked with Jarvis Cocker for many years afterwards . . .
2009's "Truelove's Gutter" saw Hawley finally on his own, but with many years experience under his belt and a collaborators list like a who's who of rock and pop. Think everyone from Marie Presley and Nancy Sinatra, to Arctic Monkeys, The Soulsavers, Paul Weller and Lisa Hannigan, among many, many others.
After many years of Hawley turning out well-produced, singer-songwriter, crooner-friendly tunes, and becoming moderately successful into the bargain, his long-time friend and fellow Sheffield guitarist Tim Mcall died an untimely death. This had the effect of Hawley re-assessing his musical career to date, and asking himself what he'd really like to do musically.
The answer was "Standing at The Sky's Edge", still with the trademark smooth Hawley vocals and intelligent lyrics, but now with a grittier, raw-er, guitar sound, much more like his live persona. With feedback turned up to 11, and the distortion pedal pushed hard down, this was a newer, rougher, and more exciting Hawley. Now the actual sound on the album and the professed admiration for Mark Lanegan made sense. "Standing at The Sky's Edge" was his last album to date, and I eagerly await his next . . .