Ted Hawkins: Missin' Mississippi
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I will not spend time repeating myself, because I have just written a long piece about Ted Hawkins over at my own music blog. If you are not familiar with Hawkins, you really should be, and seriously won't regret looking further into his music - there are a couple more tunes to get you started in my Ted Hawkins post. Hawkins was raised in Biloxi, Mississippi (in fact, he also has a great song called 'Biloxi') but, after wandering the United States as a young man, eventually became a Venice Beach, California mainstay, busking on the boardwalk there 8-10 hours per day. The raw emotion in his beautifully natural and unpolished voice blows me away every time. Feels like coming home!
Bonus tracks:
Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam [purchase]
Jimmie Rodgers: Miss the Mississippi [purchase]
Sammy Walker: And the Mississippi Delta Cried
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