From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V4 #25 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Monday, March 5 2001 Volume 04 : Number 025 In This Digest: ----------------- sarah mention in Now [Paul Schreiber Subject: sarah mention in Now hmmm, this didn't seem to go through before. Paul this link will no doubt change :) http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/current/cover.html >Hawksley Workman > >Pop star in waiting prepares for his closeup > >By Kim Hughes > >HAWKSLEY WORKMAN at the Rivoli (332 Queen West), Tuesday (March 6), two >shows, 8:30 and 10 pm. $15/door only. 416-596-1908. >for a guy talented enough to draw lofty, if limiting, comparisons to Tom >Waits, Jeff Buckley and David Bowie and still be singled out as an >original, Hawksley Workman peddles his eccentricities like a guy in need >of a gimmick. [snip] >Workman may shine as a songwriter, singer and performer, but he's an >equally proficient producer. It's reasonable to assume that those who >enlist him do so not only because they instantly have access to a one-man >band, but also because of his pitch-perfect ear and blooming industry >cachet. > >Notable credits so far include Calgary folk sisters Tegan & Sara and, most >recently, Toronto singer/songwriter Sarah Slean, who cut her forthcoming >major-label debut with Workman late last year at Bearsville Studios in >upstate New York. > >Slean admits her label, Atlantic -- which had signed her to a development >deal in 98 -- wasn't exactly giddy at the notion of a complete unknown >shepherding their artist. > >"They were, like, "Hawksley who? What crack are you smoking?'" But a >compromise was reached when Slean agreed to work with a name engineer, >Cliff Norrell (REM, Jayhawks, Replacements), in a name studio. > >"Hawksley made me feel plugged- in," Slean enthuses. "He speaks in >metaphors that, in a strange way, are actually clearer than normal language. > >"He'd say something like, "For this part I want you to think of a little >girl in pigtails who's about to encounter a drunk French guy with a >Marlboro in his mouth.' He'd illustrate it, I'd get it, and that's the way >I ended up playing it." [snip] ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V4 #25 ******************************