MAYER HAWTHORNE: SINGER/SONGWRITER

Mayer Hawthorne, the blue eyed ‘Soul Man’ released his 2nd single “The Walk”, August 2011, from the much anticipated album, ‘HOW DO YOU DO’ scheduled for release October 2011. His debut album with a major label. His first single for the album was released in May 2011 “Alongtime”.

You can listen to “The Walk” on his web-site:  http://mayerhawthorne.com/

Hawthorne, an American, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist comes to us from Ann Arbor Michigan and has entwined his music with a retro Motown sound. The mixes, textures and arrangement of “The Walk” will definitely remind you of the Motown sound. He has uniquely captured the past and moved it into this decade with “The Walk”. A song about an ex-love, which he sings “Baby what you doing now, you’re pissing me off” and later “But you’re shitty f**king attitude has got me changing my mind,………… so you can “Walk” those high heels right out of my life” and it all just seems to flow into the perfect soulful melody. It is sure to put a smile on your face as you strut your stuff to this tune.

“Alongtime” will remind you of Smokey Robinson/Supremes as Hawthorne steps up to his falsetto, and again a soulful melody. Not a favorite as he cannot carry the falsetto without dropping his delivery and go flat. After listening to his other stuff, “The Walk” is the best number he has out to date. He tends to use his falsetto voice often and has difficulty holding the note and goes flat. With that said if he continues to produce and arrange and sing like he does on “The Walk” only good things will come. It will be interesting to listen to his the entire album  ‘HOW DO YOU DO’  when it comes out for good, strong vocals, and the retro R&B soul sound that we know he can deliver.

He also produces and releases instrumental version’s of his songs/albums.


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