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"Dale Hawkins was stupendous, the wildest show he has ever given in the
UK." - Ian Wallis, promoter of Rockers Reunion"
""The main headliner, Dale Hawkins, blew everybody else
away." - Tony Wilkinson, UK Rock Magazine
"...that was one of the best Oxford American related nights I've ever
had the opportunity of enjoying" - Marc Smirnoff, Editor and Publlisher,
Oxford American
"...even more impressive than his performance in 2002 on the same
stage" - Barry Klein, Rockabilly Hall of Fame review of Oneida Rockin
50s Fest II
"Cream of the Crop at the Stomp - Dale Hawkins' performance was
electrifying. He had more energy than any other performer that night." - Tim
Moratzka, from Mystic Knights of the Mau Mau message board
"Dale Hawkins was killer!" - Steve Batinich, Record Dug Out; Rocky
Kruegel, Rocky's Records "Dale Hawkins, best act, best performance,
good as Checker platters. Thrilling set!" - Mean Mountain Mike,
Mean Mountain Records� "...what a blistering performance. Backed up
by Deke Dickerson, he was a highlight for yours truly." -
Tony Wilkinson, from Rockabilly Hall of Fame site. Reviews of Oneida
show)
"I have so much fun watching him play that he
was my first choice for having someone play after the screening of
the film...to me he's still the essence of cool...he and his guys
still evoke that era and that sense of youthful cool...more than
anyone I can think of from that era, Dale has still got it." - Bob Mugge
"The architect of the swamp rock boogie." - Johnny J
"...Hawkins is a master of swamp rock, lowdown
boogie and straight ahead rock 'n roll." - Rock & Blues News
"...a rockin' and rulin' daddy, as well as one of the most original
artists produced by the genre." - Jeff Hannusch
"Singer,
songwriter, producer, rhythm guitarist, textbook rock 'n roll idol...
Dale Hawkins has done it all...his finest legacy, leading bands which
matched the right spice of breathtaking guitar lines to his potent
clear-toned rockabilly vocals." - Bill Millar
"...the type of
wild genius it takes to create truly inspired rock and roll." - High
Times
"...Produced by rockabilly ace Dale Hawkins,
which is all the
endorsement anybody needs." - Memphis Commercial Appeal
"Though
retroactively relegated to the rockabilly camp, the electrifying attack
of Louisiana born Dale Hawkins was far bluesier than the majority of
his late 50s contemporaries." - Goldmine
"...if anybody could
pick horses like he (Dale) could pick guitar players, he'd be a
millionaire" - Billy Miller, Norton Records
"...still sounds
like a stone rockabilly, as wild as he was when he stormed the charts
in 1957 with 'Suzie Q.'" - Elijah Wald, Boston Globe
"...some
of Dale's misses are so well respected that their commercial failure
seems all but unbelievable." - Bill Millar
"I was adequate, but
Dale would really make you work. He wouldn't leave you alone for a
second and I was all for that." - Roy Buchanan
"Dale still
ranks as one of the hardest working performers in show business. His
voice remains strong and flexible, and able to hit the high notes
effortlessly." - Lee Cotton
"Dale Hawkins is a colorful
character, an innovator certainly, an original Chess records artist
who still lives and plays his music in his own undeniably unique style.
Dale has waxed some of the toughest R&B tracks and his voice can
still muster the dangerous whiplash quality that gives rock 'n' roll
its edge." - Tapio Vaisanen, Beveric Records
"...let us add
the name of white rhythm and blues great Dale Hawkins, who recorded
'My Babe' at Chess Studios in 1958." - Phil Carson, Roy Buchanan
biographer
"...fans who caught his show last June know he's
still running on all cylinders." - Gambit (NO)
"He's at the
crossroads of country and blues, with a bullwhip in one hand and a
bottle in the other." - Blues Revue
"...rockabilly, R&B, and
southern white-boy-blues pioneer - maybe not the first, but he's
clearly one of the most enduring." - Keith Phipps, The Onion AV Club
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