Out to Hunch | Hasil Adkins | This is what Rockabilly's About!

Out to Hunch | Hasil Adkins | the best Hasil CD!

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Out to Hunch

	Out to Hunch Hasil Adkins Norton, 2002 average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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This is what Rockabilly's About!

Pure unbridled individualism, letting insanity run wild, playing all your instruments yourself without multi tracking, recording it in a wood shed behind your mom's house and putting the blood and dirt in the music that is the pure essence of Rockabilly. Elvis is not the king in my eyes Hasil is. He is the great artist that was on a wavelength different from everybody elses'. In "She Said" he talks of trying to make it with a girl whose face looks like " a dying box of commodity meat", then in a insane voice that gives me goosebumps he talks about chopping off his girlfriend's head and putting it on the wall. I'm thinking what got in to this guy did he channel a demon while recording? Is he a schizo with multi personalties? Then he goes on to talk about a dance called "The Hunch" about the ancient dirty deed not the usual 1950's lyrical fare. No wonder none of the majors ever picked him up. If you like your music RAW and REAL you don't get better Rockabilly then the Haze.

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the best Hasil CD!

this is by far the best of the available Adkins CD's. Not much has been done in the way of transferring his vast (over 7,500) amount of songs to CD, but if you're looking for a starting point, this is it. It contains his most famous songs- No More Hot Dogs, The Hunch, and Chicken Walk among others. But, EVERY song on this disc is a true classic in its own right. It can't really be described as classic rockabilly music, but the man is very eclectic, unique, and he definitely has a way with words. A wonderful slice of Americana! The song quality is very primal (it was recorded on a home tape recorder with Adkins doing all the instruments himself).
The liner notes provide a good bit of info, and there there are also some great photos.
(since Amazon has no product image, this is the one with the orange and blue cover).

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new force of nature discovered

Out of the 1950's backwoods of west virginny comes some of the most solid, awe-inspiring, rock 'n' roll of the last 100 years. This guy is the rill thang; an unadorned, unadulterated jerry lee lewis, little richard, and chuck berry. Feel the power.

Something different.

There is some music that needs to be heard, and certainly the work of Hasil Adkins is one of them.

I suppose the best description of him is that of a "rockabilly madman", but this doesn't quite do justice to a man who composes a song about cutting off a woman's head to hang it on the wall because she eats too many hot dogs ("No More Hot Dogs"), presented in a primitive rock-n-roll fashion, chugging guitar and a simple drum beat. What makes this so impressive though is that Adkins recorded all the parts (vocal, guitar, drums) simultaneously, using pedals to trigger the drums. The material on "Out to Hunch" is drawn from home recordings, some of which saw release on 7", in the '50s and '60s by Adkins. Admittedly, this causes the sound quality to be degraded at times, but the music does shine through in its primitive brilliance.

His songs range in topic from bizarre relationship stories ("She Said", "Turn My Coat Tails Loose", "You Don't Love Me"), thinly veiled sexual metaphors ("Teenie Weenie Waddy Kiss", "Do It To Me Tonight", "Chicken Walk" and "The Hunch"-- the latter being non-existent dance crazes. Oddly enough, the songs about women and hot dogs appear to be sincere rather than metaphorical), a couple covers (an oddly straight cover of "Rockin' Robin" being the notable of these) and no less than three songs about decapitating women ("No More Hot Dogs", "We Got a Date", "I Need Your Head"). "We Got a Date" is probably the best example of Adkins' music-- a primitive guitar and drum line over which Adkins grunts, growls, mumbles and vocally imitates a chainsaw that certainly caught my attention when I first heard it (and inspired me to dig up this piece).

Is this genius? In its own way, I think so. This is certainly not the kind of music that everyone, even rockabilly fans, could listen to. But I suspect that anyone whose tastes are a little weird can find something intriguing about this, certainly I have.

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Songs are great!