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Track Listing
1. Whole Lot of Women
2. Baby
3. Who Got My Natural Comb?
4. Watch Your Step - (acoustic version)
5. Sorry You're Sick
6. Lost Ones, The
7. Bad Dog
8. Happy Hour
9. Cold & Bitter Tears
10. I Got What I Wanted
11. North to Alaska
12. Don't Ever Leave Me
13. Who Do You Love
14. I Ain't Got Nothing Yet
15. You're Beautiful to Me - (previously unreleased)
16. Happy Days - (previously unreleased)
17. Be With Me Jesus - (previously unreleased)
18. Strange Conversation
19. Biloxi
20. Good and the Bad, The
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Billy Payne, Pat Mastelotto | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
SUFFER NO MORE is a career-spanning compilation of Ted Hawkins's recordings for the Evidence, Rounder and DGC labels along with rarely heard mid-'60s singles and previously unreleased material.
Personnel includes: Ted Hawkins (vocals, guitar); Tony Berg (guitar, keyboards); Arthur Wright, Chris Bruce (guitar); Greg Leisz (lap steel, Hawaiian & pedal steel guitars); Martin Tillman (cello); Billy Payne, Patrick Warren (keyboards); Kevin McCormick, John Pierce, Guy Pratt (bass); Jim Keltner, Pat Mastelotto, Greg Wells (drums, percussion); Elizabeth Hawkins (background vocals).
The Phillip Walker Band: Phillip Walker (guitar, background vocals); David Li (saxophone); Mel Moore (trumpet); Arthur Woods (piano); Dennis Walker (bass); Johnny Tucker (drums).
The Angry Old Men: Dale Wilson, Augie Brown (guitar); Dennis Walker (bass); Johnny Greer (drums).
The Michael Messer Band: Michael Messer (electric & slide guitars); Eddie Genis (guitar); David Mitchell (piano, organ, keyboards); Andy Crowdy (bass); Jeffro Robertson (drums, percussion).
Producers: Al Scott, Bruce Bromberg, Dennis Walker, H. Thorp Minister III, Ted Hawkins, Tony Berg.
Compilation producer: Jimmy Guterman.
Engineers include: John Cevetello, Bill Dashiell, Gary Denton, Hollis Halford, Will Gosling, Eddie Freeman, Mike Drianis, John Paterno, Susan Rogers.
Were it not for his entry into the public consciousness via a deal with Geffen Records near the end of his life, Ted Hawkins might have been one of American music's greatest undiscovered treasures. Though his final effort, THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS, established him as a major artist, his earlier recordings remained largely unnoticed until this career-spanning collection's release. Hawkins's music is a true synthesis of traditional American styles, and he's equally at home with country, R&B, soul, folk and blues. "Happy Hour" is representative of the sort of country weeper into which he often sank his teeth. "Baby" is a classic slice of '60s-style rhythm and blues. "North To Alaska" is a traditional-sounding folk ballad about the Gold Rush.
On affecting tunes like "Sorry You're Sick" and "The Lost Ones," his gritty, soulful, Sam Cooke-ish vocal is backed only by his syncopated acoustic guitar strumming. Elsewhere, he is backed by an electric blues band and, on the Geffen sessions, by L.A. studio vets. His emotional honesty and the unaffected passion he expresses in his original compositions will make listeners of SUFFER NO MORE wish the Ted Hawkins story could have gone on for a while longer.
Industry Reviews
...compellingly document[s] the earthy genius of the late folk-bluesman, who crafted a life of intense hardship into a stylistically diverse, remarkably expressive body of work....intelligently distills the best of the singer-guitarist's handful of studio recordings... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (01/30/1998)
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