I See Hawks in LA
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May 28th, 2008 - Hollywood
Playing June 8th at The Echo with Mike Stinson and The Chapin Sisters
Psychedelic country rockers I See Hawks In L.A. (www.iseehawks.com) announced the birth of a new CD. New listeners will be struck by this latest phase of the Hawks journey - mixing serious country cred (members have played with Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, John Denver, Hazel and Alice, and every honky-tonk from Riverside to Malibu) with wild lyricism and surreal story telling. Audra Schroeder of the Austin Chronicle calls it: "Americana, traversing the landscape of the Golden State like Didion on horseback. It's a divine fusion of humor and twang that's definitely high, but not that lonesome."
I See Hawks In L.A. were founded in 1999 by Minnesotan turned Echo Park dweller Rob Waller and Cal native Paul Lacques and have been called ".the city's premier roots band" by the Los Angeles Times and "...tranceinducing, the stories transfixing, the vibe completely Californian" by alt country bible No Depression. Hallowed Ground, the band's 4th release, cuts a wide swath of post-Gram Parsons California country music, and lyrically mines poetically expressed eco/end times themes. This time around, the band ventures into Celtic, Tex-Mex and 70s Soul, with a beefed up sound from mixer Ethan Allen (The 88, Patti Griffin, Daniel Lanois). Hawks records have mixed traditional bar room musings with tales rooted in geography: mating dances of whales; the life of Senator Byrd from West Virginia; a Humboldt pot grower's flight to Tibet; boom and bust in guitarist Lacques's Mojave desert homeland; wandering hippie caravans; the imminent collapse of suburban Houston. In 2002 the Hawks were decidedly ahead of the curve in condemning the Bush administration's drums of war.
Despite this out on a limb perch, I See Hawks In L.A. have been embraced by legends
Psychedelic country rockers I See Hawks In L.A. (www.iseehawks.com) announced the birth of a new CD. New listeners will be struck by this latest phase of the Hawks journey - mixing serious country cred (members have played with Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, John Denver, Hazel and Alice, and every honky-tonk from Riverside to Malibu) with wild lyricism and surreal story telling. Audra Schroeder of the Austin Chronicle calls it: "Americana, traversing the landscape of the Golden State like Didion on horseback. It's a divine fusion of humor and twang that's definitely high, but not that lonesome."
I See Hawks In L.A. were founded in 1999 by Minnesotan turned Echo Park dweller Rob Waller and Cal native Paul Lacques and have been called ".the city's premier roots band" by the Los Angeles Times and "...tranceinducing, the stories transfixing, the vibe completely Californian" by alt country bible No Depression. Hallowed Ground, the band's 4th release, cuts a wide swath of post-Gram Parsons California country music, and lyrically mines poetically expressed eco/end times themes. This time around, the band ventures into Celtic, Tex-Mex and 70s Soul, with a beefed up sound from mixer Ethan Allen (The 88, Patti Griffin, Daniel Lanois). Hawks records have mixed traditional bar room musings with tales rooted in geography: mating dances of whales; the life of Senator Byrd from West Virginia; a Humboldt pot grower's flight to Tibet; boom and bust in guitarist Lacques's Mojave desert homeland; wandering hippie caravans; the imminent collapse of suburban Houston. In 2002 the Hawks were decidedly ahead of the curve in condemning the Bush administration's drums of war.
Despite this out on a limb perch, I See Hawks In L.A. have been embraced by legends