Richard Hawley - Lady’s bridge

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Richard Hawley doesn’t just sing, he croons. It’s an important distinction. Words are enfolded in silken, sonorous grooves, his voice alone imparting the most acute sense of romance to ‘Lady’s Bridge‘, the follow-up to Mercury nominated album, ‘Cole’s Corner’. Once again it is Hawley’s intimately mythologized Sheffield that informs the subject matter. With its shimmering slap-bass, lusty lap-steel, strings that soar like young lover‘s hearts and percussion that pitter-patters like rain against the window, the music proves as perfectly sculpted as its creator’s brylcreemed bonce. What so impresses is Hawley’s ability to make us feel the exquisite emotion of songs such as ‘Lady Solitude’ and ‘The Sea Calls’ as if they were our own. For the Sheffield Sinatra, 2007 should be a very good year.

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