The Final Tour

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The Final Tour
Ted Hawkins - The Final Tour.jpg
Live album by
Ted Hawkins
Released1998
Recorded1994, live on tour
Genre Soul blues
Length67:00
LanguageEnglish
Label Evidence
Producer Jerry Gordon
CompilerJerry Gordon
Ted Hawkins chronology
Love You Most of All – More Songs from Venice Beach
(1998)		The Final Tour
(1998)		The Ted Hawkins Story: Suffer No More
(1998)

The Final Tour is a live album by American soul blues singer Ted Hawkins, released in 1998. [1] The recordings capture Hawkins on his last concert tour in 1994, weeks before his death. The album received mixed and positive reviews.

Contents

Recording

The first 16 tracks formed a set at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California, on November 5, 1994. The next three songs formed a suite about Hawkins' life growing up in Mississippi, recorded on October 8, 1994, at The Pres House at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Finally, "A Thing Called Love" was performed at Goochi's, in Wenatchee, Washington.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]
Christgau's Consumer Guide Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [4]
Entertainment Weekly A [5]

Alex Henderson of AllMusic wrote that the album "shows how great Hawkins was sounding during the last months of his life" and called it magnificent. Rock critic Robert Christgau gave the album a more muted review, giving it an honorable mention.

Track listing

All songs written by Ted Hawkins unless otherwise stated

  1. Intro – 0:24 (a spoken-word introduction by Hawkins)
  2. "There Stands the Glass" (Russ Hull, Webb Pierce, Mary Jean Shurtz) – 2:49
  3. "Watch Your Step" – 2:44
  4. "Strange Conversation" – 5:16
  5. "Sorry You're Sick" – 2:18
  6. "Bring It On Home Daddy" – 3:16
  7. "Big Things" – 3:02
  8. "Revenge of Scorpio" – 2:56
  9. "Groovy Little Things" – 3:41
  10. "Ladder of Success" – 3:13
  11. "Part Time Love" (Clay Hammond) – 5:24
  12. "I Got What I Wanted" (Brook Benton, Margie Singleton) – 3:07
  13. "Bad Dog"" – 2:24
  14. "The Good and the Bad" – 4:56
  15. "All I Have to Offer You Is Me" (Dallas Frazier, A.L. Owens) – 4:23
  16. "Long as I Can See the Light" (John Fogerty) – 2:44
  17. "Biloxi" (Jesse Winchester) – 4:17
  18. "The Lost Ones" – 3:16
  19. "Missin' Mississippi" (Byron Gallimore, Alan Mevis, William Shore) – 3:57
  20. "A Thing Called Love" (Jerry Reed) – 2:53

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Morris, Chris (January 10, 1998). "The Boardwalk Revisited". Billboard. Vol. 110, no. 2. p. 51.
  2. ↑ Henderson, Alex. "The Final Tour – Ted Hawkins". AllMusic .
  3. ↑ Kot, Greg (February 27, 1998). "Ted Hawkins The Final Tour (Evidence) (star) (star) (star) (star)". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  4. ↑ Christgau, Robert (October 15, 2000). "Ted Hawkins: The Final Tour". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. ISBN   9780312245603.
  5. ↑ Schinder, Scott (January 30, 1998). "The Ted Hawkins Story: Suffer No More; The Final Tour". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved October 11, 2021.
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