It's like Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra had a baby and named him Mayer Hawthorne. I stumbled upon the smooth solid-gold oldie sounding young thirty somethin's voice a couple months back, and he's been giving me goosebumps ever since. He's also been making the music world swoon ever since he signed with Stones Throw Records, who have been making it their personal agenda to always keep things at least dashed with the smooth and sexy since '96. (yall member the 90's? it was like eons ago. )
Anyway, after ignoring it for sometime, I just peeped Hawthorne's new video for his cover of I left my Heart in San Francisco, and if the eye-popping (seriously, I thought I transported) quality of the vid doesn't get you, the song does. It's super refreshing that a artist and entire record label still have a true and real appreciation for "back-in-the-day" (when music was still music, as ya mamma or daddy will tell you) music. I don't want to get into that weird, theoretical, controversial, not legitimately-back-up able argument about how music today is all shit and 30 or 40 years ago it was real and not this pop/synthetic/hiphop/digital debauchery crap, but I will say that I've always admired when you can hear the soul in a song. The golden days had a lot of soul, today its sometimes rare, by Mayer isn't just bringing it back, he's rebirthing in. Check it out:
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