Bo Diddley"/"Who Do You She Wrote the Music and Lyrics and Helped with Love." Here's Where You Find out Why Dylan the Arrangements on This, Her Second Album
No, you have to wait until 1963 for any of Tikaram is an extremely talented musician. that, when Hawkins released the double- In addition to her singing and guitar playing, barrelled single "Bo Diddley"/"Who Do You she wrote the music and lyrics and helped with Love." Here's where you find out why Dylan the arrangements on this, her second album. wanted these kids to back him on his 1966 tour; Production is excellent, thanks to Rod Argent here's where you find out what Zimmie meant and Peter Van Hooke They know when to keep by "that thin, wild mercury sound"; compared their hands off the controls. As aresult, the with the 1959 "Hey Boba Lou," here's what's music speaks in direct, immediate, often terse meant by "development," "growth," "chops," terms. For example, "It All Came Back Today," "energy," "balls"; and here's what Robbie an elegy for lost love is simply scored for flute, meant when he said, "We had one thing on our accordian, violin, and acoustic guitar. The minds: Stomp." introspective, bittersweet tone of the song is "Who Do You Love" is an ass-kicker, mean heightened by the sensitive accompaniment. music all the way to the end of the fade, Ron- Mitch Dalton's insistent guitar forms the foun- nie & the Hawks sounding like some primeval dation on which the tale is told; the flute, violin, rock band that somebody with atape recorder and accordian add the exclamation marks. Cap- was just lucky enough to stumble on. Imean, tured in intimate sound, the song is compel- these guys sound way too tough to even bother ling and grabs your heart-strings.
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