We’re on our way, slowly but surely, to the end of 2025.
Instead of starting to think about this year’s best LPs,
let’s go back to 2024 and listen to TUTV’s 20 Best Albums
again, and look back on what I wrote about each one
of them.
Today: No. 17
Artist: RICHARD HAWLEY (Sheffield, UK)
Album: In This City They Call You Love
His 10th
MOJO (British music monthly: “Hawley delivers more Steel City romance and Memphis
twang on his new album. He continues to enchant on hymn to his hometown. He has long repurposed the spirit of ’50s and ’60s balladry with style and great affection, his quiff, tailoring and fondness for the lonesome twang of a Gretsch guitar badges of nostalgic allegiance.”
Press photo by 📸: Dean Chalkley
TUTV: Nostalgia is the keyword all over this fully hearty record. As we already know
for a long time Hawley is a romantic at heart who’s in love with his city Sheffield since
he was a child. It’s more than just his hometown.
It’s the place where he experienced all things good and bad, happy and sad. It leads
to yearning reflections, fanciful daydreams and wistful meditations. With his soft and warm voice and nighttime stories, the late great Roy Orbison comes to mind on
several occasions.
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