Guiding My Boat

Richard Hawley has never sounded better than on this 2003 B-side (Run For Me was the single, from the Lowedges album). It's a cover version but sounds much like a hymn. In Hawley's hands, with a huge guitar sound and his deep, enveloping voice it's a song that picks you up, gives you a hug and sends you on your way.

Troublesome Waters.mp3

Hearts Are The Easiest Things You Can Break

When The Jesus And Mary Chain covered someone else's song it came with shards of feedback, broken glass, earsplitting volume and a gallon of Special Brew. So it seems only fitting that when covering them Richard Hawley should head in the other direction- keeping the girl group drum pattern, and then layering rich vox, twanging guitars and some lushness to the Reid brothers ode to a girl, or drugs, or possibly just candy. Cracking cover version to set off an unseasonably sunny Sunday.


06. Some Candy Talking.mp3