Daytrotter Session

You dont look so good, friend. It seems like you might be a little down in the dumps, a little blue. Is there anything that we can do, anything at all? Dont hesitate in saying so. Wed like to help if we can. You think that nothing can help, huh? Well, that cannot be right. As a matter of fact, we know thats not right. Weve got something right here thats bigger and more powerful than the greatest ray of sunshine thats ever been seen. Its bound and guaranteed to work for you. Dont look so skeptical. Just give it a try. See, youre already looking better. Do you feel any better? Yeah? Well, thats great. His names Mayer Hawthorne. Just let him keep working on you. No, hes not a doctor, but its hard to convince yourself hes not, isnt it? He works wonders and hes reliable. Hell keep you feeling like this as long as youll have him. Theres no end in sight to what hes good for. Youll become addicted to this formula and you wont care that you are because youre getting the results you want and need. Youre going to need Hawthornes latest record, "How Do You Do?" with you at all times, just in case one of these attacks hits you again and you need to get back into your groove. The Detroit, Michigan-dwelling, Motown-loving soul singer - who recently performed an alternative to the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day halftime performance by Nickelback from his parents home, broadcast on Rolling Stones website - is everything that the Motor Citys musical legacy was built on when Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson were running the town. Hes unabashedly retro-leaning and it makes every song sound as if it were a classic - something plucked out of a hit parade, dusted off and performed again, anew, with the horns bleating the sweet punctuations and the harmonies pitched thick and about as perfect as you can ever get them. He writes the catchiest damn hooks and provides us with the kinds of loving and leaving, pining for women types of songs that still get done today, but often in much different ways and with much different results. "The Walk" is a song about a woman with luxurious hair and soft lips, but shes doing Hawthorne wrong. Aint that always the case with those babes with their luxurious hair and soft lips? Shes changed from what he thought he was originally getting with her, as he sings, "From the moment that I met you I thought you were fine/So fine/But your ****ting f**king attitude got me changing my mind/Thats right *****…/And you can walk those long legs, baby, right out of my life." Even with these new revelations, this cold water on the fire, the song sounds like a celebration of sorts. Its the kind of song that gives you the feeling that the clouds are parting and that its time to get back to having fun - something that might have been missing before. "How Do You Do?" continues like this or the entire album, covering cheeks with dimples and putting candy in our mouths.