Live at Other Music: Richard Hawley (Episode #7)
Episode lucky number seven in the Live at Other Music series features an intimate evening here at the shop with the incomparable Richard Hawley. Anybody who made it out that night in early December knows that it was bitterly cold outside, we were battling extended technical difficulties with a buzzing p.a. during soundcheck, and Richard, in the midst of a nationwide tour supporting his haunting Lady’s Bridge album, had developed a pretty wicked case of rock and roll road cough. What they also know is that when Mr. Hawley steps on stage, all worries and problems seem to fall away, and he gave a heart-stopping performance that transported the room of haggard New Yorkers to his hometown of Sheffield, England and beyond. Hawley comes off like a performer and showman from another era, singing his ballads and telling his stories as if nothing mattered but the music and the audience. That night, just two guitars, one voice, and achingly beautiful emotion.
Sadly, Other Music Digital is not at this time able to carry downloads of Richard’s three excellent albums, as his label Mute Records is a subsidiary of major-label giant EMI, and at this point they do not work with little fellas like us. Our NYC shop and mail-order site, however, do carry the catalog on CD, so click on over if you’re old-fashioned like that, and we’ll set you up right.
-Josh
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