Hasil Adkins: Out To Hutch

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I have been thinking about picking this up since it was reviews in the Mojo With White Stripes on the cover. I was poking around soulseek and happened to come across a copy (thank you mr. Blount)

holy shit, this is insane madness. This is what I have been looking for for awhile. I would not play this in the car on a first date, but boy, it sure is good. No More Hot Dog's is not something you put on a mix tape to attract a women's interest.

So what is the story with this guy?

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 24 February 2003 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

ack, make that hunch.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 24 February 2003 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

double ack, make that ILM!

time for bed

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 24 February 2003 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I think he's certifiable. At least I saw him at a very sparsely-attended Fat Possum showcase in D.C. (at the Black Cat I think it was, is that the name of the club near Howard University?) and he was clearly nuts. I was a little insulted that he should be featured along with some genuinely interesting bluesmen; the intimation that only a nutty, alcholic, barely competent wild white man could be the "primitive" equal of a older backwoods Miss. electric bluesman suggests some of the patronizing attitude at the heart of the FP aesthetic, methinks. OK, that said, it was pretty amazing. He strummed his guitar, pounded a bass drum, played the harmonica, and occasionally blew a trumpet (!). Worth seeing once--and how--but a little of this goes a long way, I thought, so I never bothered to pick up an album. Tell me how this album sounds.

Didn't Norton put out a HA album not long ago that solely comprised songs about chickens?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got a few tracks on compilations by him, and I really like him. She Said and Let's Do Like We Done are particularly strong, I think. I don't know the track asked about here.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I was a little insulted that he should be featured along with some genuinely interesting bluesmen; the intimation that only a nutty, alcholic, barely competent wild white man could be the "primitive" equal of a older backwoods Miss. electric bluesman suggests some of the patronizing attitude at the heart of the FP aesthetic, methinks.

Yeah, amateurist, but the real heart of Matthew Johnson's "aesthetic" is that nutty, alcoholic, barely competent wild black men could be the "primitive" equal of older city Chicago electric bluesmen. CeDell Davis used to be good, though, and I hear his last album might be kinda all right, but in general Matthew Johnson having his stable of drunks grind thru "Green Onions" and suchlike isn't my idea of fun.

"Out to Hunch" is the one Hasil album to get, I guess, he's much more fun to read about than listen to.

― frank p. jones (frank p. jones), Monday, 24 February 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Anybody who sings about Peanut Butter is alright in my book.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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