Richard Hawley: Standing At the Sky's Edge – review

Richard Hawley does something of a stylistic about-face without sacrificing any of his unique appealFrom the members of Traffic abandoning Birmingham for Berkshire, to Fleet Foxes' longing for a simpler life where "green apples hang from the green apple tree", the lure of a pastoral utopia is one of rock's most pervasive myths. But it has to be said, it's had more likely adherents than Richard Hawley. With his quiff and drape coat, his omnipresent cigarette and his air of a man who's recently ...

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