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Track Listing
1. Strange Conversation
2. Big Things
3. There Stands the Glass
4. Biloxi
5. Groovy Little Things
6. Good and the Bad, The
7. Afraid
8. Green-Eyed Girl
9. Ladder of Success
10. Long as I Can See the Light
Album Notes
Personnel: Ted Hawkins (vocals, guitar); Greg Leisz (lap steel guitar, Hawaiian guitar, pedal steel guitar); Chris Bruce (guitar); Martin Tillman (cello); Tony Berg, Billy Payne, Patrick Warren (keyboards); John Pierce, Guy Pratt, Kevin McCormick (bass); Pat Mastelotto, Jim Keltner, Greg Wells (drums, percussion).
Includes liner notes by Dave Adelson and Dave Marsh.
1994 found Ted Hawkins breaking through to his largest audience yet with the release of THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS, Hawkins' first album for a major label. Sadly, on New Year's Day 1995 he succumbed to a massive stroke, leaving this record as his final offering. The album is every bit the equal of his remarkable WATCH YOUR STEP and HAPPY HOUR.
Hawkins is supported by subtle and evocative accompaniment-churchly organ here, a steel guitar there-and the players are understated and perfectly suited to the material. The few covers include "There Stands The Glass," a stirring song that often opened Hawkins' concerts, Jesse Winchester's "Biloxi," and John Fogerty's "Long As I Can See the Light." Ted Hawkins was a big man with a big voice, and the spiritual and emotional shadows he cast here will linger for at least the next hundred years.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #38 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Village Voice (02/28/1995)
3.5 Stars - Good - ...YEARS is a passionate collection of gospel, soul, country and blues songs about mortality, perserverance and transcendence that are given credence by the artist's own experiences as an ex-convict and street singer...
Rolling Stone (08/25/1994)
...A remarkable L.A. street singer, Hawkins crafts passionate yet plainspoken combinations of soul, blues, and country music in a croak that crosses Sam Cooke with Otis Redding.... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (04/01/1994)
Performance: Real As Rain/Recording: Basic - ...Ted Hawkins is a former L.A. street singer ...[who] has refined a personal mix of blues, soul, folk, and country, and performs as if he was channeling the shades of Otis Redding, Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson... tremendous...
Stereo Review (07/01/1994)
...His performances exude a hard-earned state of grace that is deeply spiritual...sparce arrangements give Hawkins's husky, soulful voice plenty of room to wander, and the trip is invariably worth taking...
Option (08/01/1994)
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