Micah P. Hinson

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  1. Yard Of Blonde Girls
  2. We Won't Have To Be Lonesome
  3. I Keep Havin' These Dreams

Label: Full Time Hobby

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A natural storyteller with gravely vocals, swelling harmonies and heartfelt lyrics. Discerning modern country.

A twentysomething Texan whose sweet, gravelly voice can already bear comparison with Roy Orbison and Kris Kristofferson, Hinson is a treat: a natural storyteller and a gifted musician. This new album still has the old drama and heartbreak, but it seems he’s fallen in love, and there is softness and thankfulness too. Produced by John Congleton (The Polyphonic Spree, Antony & The Johnsons, Black Mountain) this album has found him hitting a fine musical stride whilst getting plenty of plays accross the BBC network on radio's 1, 2, 4 and 6! The music press have been united in their praise of Hinson, and this album has seen him gain even more credibility amongst critics (4 star reviews in most quality publications) and die -hard music fans.

“I Keep Havin’ These Dreams” is a song of soaring and plinking strings, swelling harmonies, heartfelt lyrics. Warm, simple and a bit weepy.  “We Won’t Have to be Lonesome” is a homely and re-assuring curl-up on the sofa in front of the log fire, delivering a beautifully layered homage to love through country music the way it should be done. “Yard of Blonde Girls” brings us an uplifting slice of Americana, all string-plucked banjo, upbeat with a hopeful and loving angle.

 

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Releases we represent:

  • Micah P. Hinson And The Red Empire Orchestra | Album | Full Time Hobby | 2008
  • The Gospel Of Progress | Album | Sketchbook Records | 2004
  • And The Opera Circuit | Album | 2006
  • The Baby & The Satalite | Mini Album | Sketchbook Records | 2005
  • All Dressed Up and Smelling of Sttrangers | Album | Full Time Hobby | 2009
  • Pioneer Sabotuers | Album | Full Time Hobby | 2010

Quotes:

"Hinson's strong, rich voice veers from sounding utterly unique to eerily familiar (sometimes with echoes of Smog's Bill Callahan)" **** The Guardian

"Hinson grapples with his hopes and needs, “constantly craving what isn’t mine” in “Tell Me It Ain’t So”, before realising his goals are already within his grasp in “I Keep Having These Dreams”. **** The Independent

“An astonishing album of country noir.” NME

***** Uncut (Americana album of the Month)

**** Q

**** The Times

**** The Sun

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