Richard Hawley has a new album out in August. I love his music. I don't say that often, I don't get that enthusiastic about popsters. I mean I adore that anguished baritone melodic vocal. He's one of these great talents that lurked behind the scenes playing guitar for the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton & All Saints and then as if from nowhere started slipping out these beautiful edgey mysterious and lush sounds perfectly produced, gelled together with this extraordinarily rich and relaxed vocal that seems to have caught the essence of all the great male vocalists - it could be Roy Orbison or Sinatra, a Morrisey or Chris Isaacs, Glen Campbell, Leonard Cohen, or Johnny Cash but no, it's Richard Hawley! He stepped so far out from anything that might be cool that he could well find himself becoming the new cool of the British music industry, and if not, at least for a generation with their ears open, one of the finest musicians - he plays umpteen instruments and produces his albums. No small talent.
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Lady's Bridge
Richard Hawley has a new album out in August. I love his music. I don't say that often, I don't get that enthusiastic about popsters. I mean I adore that anguished baritone melodic vocal. He's one of these great talents that lurked behind the scenes playing guitar for the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton & All Saints and then as if from nowhere started slipping out these beautiful edgey mysterious and lush sounds perfectly produced, gelled together with this extraordinarily rich and relaxed vocal that seems to have caught the essence of all the great male vocalists - it could be Roy Orbison or Sinatra, a Morrisey or Chris Isaacs, Glen Campbell, Leonard Cohen, or Johnny Cash but no, it's Richard Hawley! He stepped so far out from anything that might be cool that he could well find himself becoming the new cool of the British music industry, and if not, at least for a generation with their ears open, one of the finest musicians - he plays umpteen instruments and produces his albums. No small talent.
