Wooo hooo...wanna cry without going honky tonkin'? Listen to Ted Hawkins sing Happy Hour....it makes me drunk and smell like cigarette smoke just listening to it....takes me back to me and the old man in an old bar in the backwoods of South Carolina....NICE!!
Ted was discovered while busking on the streets of Venice Beach. He had a couple of records on Rounder before Geffen signed him in the early 90's. He carried his milk crate stool everywhere he went and kept time with a wood plank on the floor that he used as a percussive metronome. I love this man's voice. passionate and raw. His voice had the ability to cut through the din of any room. He rare...
Anyone that hasn't heard Ted Hawkins whaling over acoustic guitar simply hasn't lived a full life. He has such eloquence in his rudimentary style, makes me feel like there is still something beautiful about the simple melodies in life. Sadly, he died @ the age of 58 back in 1985...right at the pinnacle of his career. The best way I can think of to honor some of musics fallen heroes is to lis...
Wooo hooo...wanna cry without going honky tonkin'? Listen to Ted Hawkins sing Happy Hour....it makes me drunk and smell like cigarette smoke just listening to it....takes me back to me and the old man in an old bar in the backwoods of South Carolina....NICE!!
Apart from being the title of an Atlantic sampler album (yeh, I still have a copy on vinyl!!!).But what really is Soul, and how does it differentiate or cross over from the Blues?Check out this classic Ted Hawkins track that I came across while converting our whole vinyl collection to mp3 (now there's a labour of love).This album was one of my wife's but by the time I'd finished recording side ...