Monday, November 24, 2008

Mayer Hawthorne & The County - "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out"
Sublime soul for your Monday. Go get it now.
"... Few expect such heartfelt sentiment to come from a 29-year-old white kid from Ann Arbor, but he has caught the ear of his family at Stones Throw, as well as BBC Radio 1 host Gilles Peterson and producer/DJ Mark Ronson. Expectations are high for the admitted vinyl junkie who never planned on taking his crooning public. Hawthorne’s hanging-by-a-string falsetto and breakbeat production on his first recorded effort, the tender “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out,” are simultaneously Smokey and J Dilla – equal parts “The Tracks of My Tears” and “Fall in Love.” “It’s soul,” he explains, “But it’s new.”

Red vinyl, and it's heart-shaped. Dopeness. (link to mp3 download)



also spotted at Stonesthrow - Joaquin Phoenix (dressed like The Dude) debuts rap career at Dam-Funk's Funkmosphere. Nuts.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wattup Peter!

i handle PR for Mayer Hawthorne..I wanted to see if you would be intersted in being added to my taste-maker list. if so hit me at: steph (at) asideworldwide.com