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Watch Your Step
Overview
Bruce Bromberg made the original recordings for Watch Your Step in 1971 but, apart from a single Sweet Baby, nothing came of it for 11 years. That gap makes it hard to compare the album with the later recordings of H Thorpe Minster III in 1985 and the BBC sessions which began in 86. Hell, what were you listening to in 1971? All the tracks are Hawkin's originals, that was important in the 70's when, because Lennon, McCartney, Dylan, Jagger & Richards could write their own stuff we thought everybody else should too. You couldn't give away Sam Cooke covers in 71. This is a very raw Ted Hawkins, for me the accoustic tracks generally work better than the band tracks so it's no surprise that I would pick If You Love Me, I Gave Up All I Had (featuring a duet with Elizabeth Hawkins) and Stay Close To Me as the highlights.
Availability
High street stores in UK (I found my copy in Virgin). Otherwise on line music stores. Released 1982 on Rounder Records CD 2024.
Track Listing
- Watch Your Step (acoustic version)
- Bring It Home Daddy
- If You Love Me
- Don't Lose Your Cool
- Who Got My Natural Comb
- The Lost Ones
- Peace & Happiness
- Sweet Baby
- Stop Your Crying
- Put In A Cross
- Sorry You're Sick
- Watch Your Step (band version)
- TWA
- I Gave Up All I Had
- Stay Close To Me
All tracks written by Ted Hawkins.
Cover Notes
You've never heard a singer quite like Ted Hawkins. With his rough-edged soul/country voice and simple acoustic guitar, Ted brings you into his moody world, full with the life of a street singer. His dark and often quirky songs are balanced with a suprisingly upbeat sense of humour. Here are Ted's compelling original songs, in an album that showed up on many "best of" lists when it was first released in 1982. Four songs are accompanied by blues guitarist Philip Walker and his band.
Produced by David Bromberg and Dennis Walker for Joliet Productions