New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - "I was feeling certain insanities very closely," remembers
Hawksley Workman looking back on the time when he crafted 'For Him And The Girls,' his breakthrough debut album available for the first time in the US on Nov 17 (Isadora Records). "I would practice walking blindfolded in the cemetery," he explains, "I was shredding beets and roasting dandelion root." And from his perambulatory and culinary experiments, Hawksley crafted his maniacally masterful album, which begins with the aptly titled "Maniacs." While some tracks from 'For Him And The Girls' were "properly written," as Hawksley describes it, he composed others, including "Maniacs," on the drum set, an unconventional method for most songwriters, but a comfortable starting block for the multi-instrumentalist Workman.
Listen to "Maniacs," a tale of dead kites, dinosaurs and fatsos, here: http://bit.ly/Maniacs_MP3
The propulsive drums are the foundation of "Maniacs," though the juxtaposition of delicate vocal harmonies only strengthens the wildness of the song. Hawksley thanks his eccentric uncle for those octave-jumping melodies: "My Uncle Ed taught me to yodel when I was very young. He was a cowboy and a custom saddle maker and tuned his guitar to sound like the bagpipes."
Perhaps Uncle Ed was feeling "certain insanities very closely," too.
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