HAWKMEN, THE – SOULFUL DRESS

Following five original singles of blistering ‘hotrod n soul’, The Hawkmen now turn their attentions to a brace of early sixties rnb classics. A-side, Soulful Dress, is a dancefloor heater that sees the Sugar Pie DeSanto stomper saucily re-clothed in pounding double bass and piano rhythms while the guitar-led rawness of Johnny Kidd’s I Can Tell is re-versioned into a scorching organ-drenched rockabilly/soul groover. “I don’t know anybody else that can splice that touch of rockabilly with soul so effortlessly”. Craig Charles BBC6 Music (6th Oct ’18).