Sam Hawksley Broken Hearts Like Records CD

BROKEN HEARTS LIKE RECORDSAustralian singer/songwriter/guitar player- Sam Hawksley's third albumThe last couple of years have been very busy for Sam HawksleyTouring opening for Grammy award winner Keith urban, Catherine Britt, the Spencer Davis group, jimmy Barnes and Adam brand He's also managed to find time to play guitar on recordings and tours for Wendy Mathews, Richard Clapton, Don Walker, the Whitlams, Christine Anu &…..Make a brand new record that happy and broken hearts alike will enjoy"We tried to capture the spirit of a band playing together, making the song work and come alive, without relying on tons of overdubs. They way the tom petty & the heartbreakers or Neil young & crazy horse would"Drums bass and electric guitar, a singer and a song –old school- playing like a band .its music not rocket scienceRecorded @ love hz studios with his favourite rhythm section Matt Fell (bass) Glenn Wilson (drums)“IT’S THE MOST FUN I’VE HAD RECORDING”below is a track by track guide to the songs on “broken hearts like records”It just ain't me Sam HawksleyAn exercise in escapism. I was sitting at home one afternoon listening to Neil young thinking I’d like to live at the beach and never have to work or pay taxes again (don’t we all). Then I started thinking if I just took off would anyone notice and what would happen to my mail. Maybe I’m not such a good hippy after allnothin like you Sam Hawksley/ Thom McHughWritten in Nashville in June 06. I had the chords and some of the melody for this one for a while. Thom McHugh helped me nail it down. I’m no genius like Einstein’s’ son but I know a good thing when I find one…. and there’s nothing like youSuzy went to Nashville Sam Hawksley/ Jedd HughesI had this one all but written except, I didn’t have a chorus. Played it to Jedd while I was staying on his couch and he went oh the chorus is this…Its a tale of a young girl with stars in her eyes, but the dream doesn’t go to planGood love gone bad Sam HawksleyWritten in Kym Warners practice room downstairs at Jedd's. A list of all the bad things that happen when a good love goes bad. Good fun to record, what you hear is the first time we played it throughI’m sorry now Sam HawksleyI started writing this in an airport in Cincinnati, and then finished it in a hotel room in austiontown Ohio. I guess the theme of this is that love isn’t like being in a band. A band as a metaphor for loveLove lost Sam HawksleySometimes you never really see the person you’re with. Then when it all unravels you look back and ask how did we get here and what was I thinking. This song gave me the title for the album.” broken hearts like records shattered on the ground”Twistin in the wind Sam hawksley/ Michael HeanyA riff I had that inspired fine work of fiction written by mr Heany. A story about ruby and Johnny and how, just like that, their perfect world turned out perfectly wrong.The run around Sam Hawksley/ mike shimshackSometimes you just want to get it straight not get the run around.Written in NYC Sept 2005. A groove that fell out of one of Ben Butler's acoustic guitars one morning finished off with Mike Shimshack that afternoonHeaven only knows Sam Hawksley /Thom McHughOne of life’s sweetest mysteries is what the hell you see in meA rolling rocker in GTear it all down Sam Hawksley If the world today were a building then they’d condemn it and tear it down and build it again. Can’t we just do it?My unanswered prayer Sam Hawksley /Thom McHughThe third song on the album written with Thom McHugh. A bluesy moody thing as apposed to a moody bluesy thing. A prayer for love …unanswered.