Final Tour [Live]

Ted Hawkins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 1998)
• Original Release Date: January 13, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Evidence
• ASIN: B0000014QQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #103,696 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. There Stands The Glass

3. Watch Your Step

4. Strange Conversation

5. Sorry You're Sick

6. Bring It On Home Daddy

7. Big Things

8. Revenge Of Scorpio

9. Groovy Little Things

10. Ladder Of Success

11. Part Time Love

12. I Got What I Wanted

13. Bad Dog

14. The Good And The Bad

15. All I Have To Offer You Is Me

16. Long As I Can See The Light

17. Biloxi

18. The Lost Ones

19. Missin' Mississippi

20. A Thing Called Love

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I don't usually gush, but this one rates it, January 8, 2001

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Andrew D. Nelson "The Boy-Dean" (Texas City, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Final Tour (Audio CD)

This is one of the 3 or 4 best albums of any genre that I've ever heard. If that sounds like hyperbole, I'm sorry, but Ted Hawkins had it all: emotional directness, great taste in covers, perfect pitch, wonderful playing--he had it all in a way very few musicians do. His interpretive efforts are as strong as any by giants like Otis Redding and Patsy Cline. What clinches it for me is his songwriting: besides being emotionally mature and honest, it's incredibly literate and fresh. I mean, "The Good and the Bad" alone has several classic lines; when you hear him sing that "Sugar is noooooo gooood/Once it's cast among the white sands"--wow. His songs stand right up to his covers: when you can write as well as Jesse Winchester and John Fogerty, well that's sayin' something. I've been a fan since 1986 (Happy Hour): this is his best work, although it leaves a few classics off.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JUST A MAN & HIS GUITAR...AND THAT GREAT VOICE!, November 14, 2002

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Patrick Earley (Edmond, Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Final Tour (Audio CD)

This is a great live album by one of the best voices in blues..uh soul...uh r&b...pop. And there's the rub. This was a man you couldn't put a label to. Which is why he remained a starving artist almost until the day he died. Which was way too soon for this great of a live entertainer. Hawkins could make his voice do just about anything. A very versatile singer who could run through a gamut of emotions in just one song. One of the best examples of this is his wonderful acappella version of John Fogerty's "As Long As I See The Light". This song alone is worth the price of admission here. Although he leaves a few of my faves off here, most notably "Happy Hour" and "Who Got My Natural Comb", he still gives us some of his most memorable like "Watch Your Step", "Revenge Of The Scorpio", and "Biloxi". The sound quality on this cd is excellent. It was recorded in 3 different venues. I especially liked the 3 songs he does in the Wisconsin University Auditorium, where you get the echo affect from his larger than life voice. The man could sing. It didn't matter if he was walking the sands of Venice Beach with his guitar, or playing a big room, Ted Hawkins always sounded like he was giving it all. There isn't anything slick or fancy here. Just a man and his guitar. This is a wonderful last hurrah from one of the most soulful singers ever.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I bought a copy for my father, February 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Final Tour (Audio CD)

Finding Ted's final album in a store in Boston on my first US trip, I stood for over an hour, headphones clasped to my head, amazed at the warmth and openness of every track.

My wife and I had seen Ted only once, in Southport, England nearly 10 years ago, but we had never forgotten his music.

I hadn't heard the first song he sang in Southport since that night, but when Ted began Missing Mississippi on track 19, the great paddle wheels of the river turned just like they had done all those years before.

Robeson singing 'the folks I used to know'; Belafonte at Carnegie Hall; surely, Ted's sometimes beautiful, and perhaps more importantly, always honest rendition of his own and others' songs, is a life giving event of equal greatness.

After an hour or so, the CD came to an end. I wiped away a small tear and bought 2 copies - one for my wife and one for my father - it was the least I could do. As a child, our home was filled with the sound of Johnny Cash, Charley Pride and Creedence Clearwater Revival - all reborn in Ted's inspired interpretations.