Hawksley Workman
b. Canada. The true biographical details about Canadian singer-songwriter Hawksley Workman are difficult to ascertain. The artist's fecund imagination has fashioned a life story that includes periods spent ice-cutting and polishing rental shoes in a tap-dance academy before becoming a celebrated dancer himself. Whatever the truth behind Workman's upbringing, he established himself as a formidable songwriting talent with his debut For Him And The Girls. Recorded almost entirely single-handedly by the singer in his home studio, the album was released in Canada and the UK in 1999, and in the USA the following year. Covering a wide range of bases, the album drew comparison to the work of another prodigiously gifted young singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, most notably on the glam stomp of "Paper Shoes" and the lush balladry of "Sweet Hallelujah'. The album brought Workman to the attention of the major labels, leading to a recording contract with Universal Canada and the release of 2001"s sexually charged (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves. The seasonally focused mini-album Almost A Full Moon followed at the end of the year (an expanded version was released in 2002). Workman's third album proper, Lover/Fighter, was another typically ostentatious outing concerned with the duality of human nature. Nevertheless, the sublime "Autumn's Here" and "Wonderful And Sad" served further notice of Workman's standing as one of Canada's finest new songwriting talents.
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Albums
- (2007) Treeful Of Starling
- (2007) Lover/Fighter
Top Tracks
- Smoke Baby
- We Will Still Need A Song
- Anger As Beauty
- Autumn's Here
- No Reason To Cry Out Your Eyes
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