Coles Corner is Richard Hawley's fourth solo offering.
He still tours as a guitarist with Pulp and does session work for a number of artists, but it is clear from his catalog that his true passion lies with making his own records.
His production style is simple yet elegant, warm and graceful, with lots of space for the listener to enter into.
Hawley's love of Roy Orbison, Elvis, and Scott Walker has left the best possible mark on him as a singer and songwriter: He understands that in writing a song, the most important thing is to make it immediately available to the listener as either a lived or desired experience.
He paints his lyrics with melodies to get that across, then records with the intention of creating a world at once familiar and somehow utterly dreamy, timeless.
Coles Corner is an intimate collection of love songs (most of them broken), where sadness and melancholy are carefully housed in forms and frames that understand the weight of the emotion communicated without letting the emotion overwhelm the song itself.
They are saturated in tenderness and the heart of true romantic, not self pity or bitterness.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
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| 1 | Coles CornerRichard Hawley | Richard Hawley | Play | 04:52 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | A Bird Never Flew on One Wing | Richard Hawley | Play | 02:35 | 5 MB | 0 MB |
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lizzie Ball | Main Personnel, Violin |
| 2 | Andy Cook | Drums, Main Personnel |
| 3 | Duncan Cowell | Mastering |
| 4 | Colin Elliot | Audio Production, Baritone (Vocal), Bass (Electric), Bass (Upright), Engineer, Guitar (Baritone), Main Personnel, Mixing, Percussion, Piano, Producer, String Arrangements, Vocals (Background) |
| 5 | Simon Graham | Main Personnel, Viola |
| 6 | Liz Hanks | Cello, Main Personnel |
| 7 | Richard Hawley | 6-String Guitar, Arranger, Audio Production, Composer, Drums, Drums (Steel), Glockenspiel, Guitar (12 String), Guitar (12 String Acoustic), Guitar (12 String Electric), Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Baritone), Guitar (Electric), Hammer Dulcimer, Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Lyre, Main Personnel, Mixing, Omnichord, Piano, Primary Artist, Producer, Spanish Guitar, Vibraphone, Vocals |
| 8 | Gareth James | Photography |
| 9 | Naomi Koop | Main Personnel, Viola |
| 10 | Lizz Lipscombe | Main Personnel, Violin |
| 11 | Nick Phillips | Cover Design |
| 12 | Shez Sheridan | 6-String Guitar, Guitar (12 String), Guitar (12 String Acoustic), Guitar (12 String Electric), Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Baritone), Guitar (Electric), Main Personnel, Vocals (Background) |
| 13 | Susannah Simmons | Main Personnel, Violin |
| 14 | Gaynor Sutcliffe | Main Personnel, Violin |
| 15 | Gaynor Sutcliffe | Violin |
| 16 | Mike Timm | Audio Production, Engineer, Mixing, Producer |
| 17 | Traditional | Composer |
| 18 | John Trier | Fender Rhodes, Glockenspiel, Main Personnel, Piano, Vibraphone |
| 19 | Johnny Woods | Bass (Upright), Main Personnel |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |