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Unless you're a jam band like Phish or moe, a live CD is an endeavor fraught with risk.
Acoustics in performance spaces are rarely ideal, and the sound of coughs, shrieks, and "you
had to be there" artist-audience exchanges can distract from the music. Chanteuse and songwriter
Sophie B. Hawkins--best knows for '90s radio hit "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover"--seems to have been
aware of these potential pitfalls, because she avoids them all on the soulful Sophie B. Hawkins Live.
Culled from two shows in Seattle and Sydney, Live flaunts Hawkins' gruff yet strong voice, an instrument
highly evocative of another bisexual talent: Janis Joplin. The songs are distinctive and catchy, ranging from
the scat-rap "Mysteries We Understand" to the Joni Mitchell-influenced "California Here I Come."
The New York City-born Hawkins, who has homes there and in Los Angeles's Venice area, comes off as
somewhat crunchy California type, albeit with a healthy sense of humor, especially with the missteps she's taken in her long career. Hawkins has matured into a self-assured, and quite sensual, musician. When she
proclaims that the tune "Sweetysexywoman" is dedicated to beautiful females over 45, it's easy to interpret that this consistently appealing talent could be singing autogiobraphically. -- Neal Broverman
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins first came on the scene in 1992 with
her debut album, Tongues and Tails, featuring the
Top 5 hit "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover". The mega-hit instantly became her signature song. "What better song to be associated with? It's still my favorite song to perform. It represents the part of me that rose up from the street, pure emotion."
Her second album Whaler, which also went gold, featured the Top 10 Adult Contemporary track "As I Lay Me Down," the longest running single (67 weeks) in the history of any Billboard chart.
Click on Sophie B's jukebox to hear clips from Timbre and Wilderness.
Other Releases From Sophie:
WILDERNESS Co-produced by Germany's dance-floor-savvy Berman Brothers (Amber, the Baha Men), Wilderness' best tracks match Hawkins' impressionistic lyrics and shape-shifting melodies against multi-layered cross rhythms and colorful splashes of horns and guitars. Wilderness makes a strong case for Sophie B. Hawkins' evolving talentsmajor label or no. - Paste Magazine
TIMBRE
"The album showcases a singer who has honed and gathered her various vocal styles -- somber folk singer, saucy pop gal, note-bending jazz chanteuse -- into a sleek, multifaceted whole.....when Hawkins is on, she's on at full wattage: Her dusky delivery on the introspective, fiddle-and-synthesizer-driven "No Connection" evokes the smoked-up back booths of a hundred seedy bars; her percussive, slyly wicked rant on "The Darkest Childe" captures the coffeehouse ambience of a spoken-word artist at full tilt. - Rolling Stone
THE CREAM WILL RISE
"A hit at its Sydney world premiere,"The Cream Will Rise" starts as a fairly standard music docu but lurches off in an enthrallingly personal direction as long-forgotten secrets about singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins' childhood are uncovered. For the most part, this is a bull's-eye first helming effort for Gigi Gaston, who sensitively captures moments of personal revelation, desperation and elation while playing more than 20 of Hawkins' songs. This unexpectedly compelling piece deserves legs beyond fests on music and other webs and, given some deft marketing, in theatrical dates." - Variety
THANKS AGAIN YOUNG LADY...HANKIN IS BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS AND YOU ARE SOME WONDERFUL WOMEN! UMMM...SORRY I FALL ASLEEP...SO MANY SHOWS. HARD WORKERS REAP AND SOW...ROCK THIS BABY GIRL...HAHA!
Sophie, I must have played your album Whaler especially the song As I l lay Me Down, a million times. I also love your song Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover, kinda felt that way sometimes, too. Whatever you learned with those cast iron frying pans your mom let you learn rhythms on sure helped because I have loved all your music. The songs on my site are all original soon to be posted patiently in new productions. Check out May All Your Dreams Come True, Revelation and Homebound Train. Here is a link to my initial production of my song Homebound Train, I am honored to be your friend, and may the Great Spirit always be with you, Jesse
WILDERNESS
TIMBRE
THE CREAM WILL RISE
