Screamin' Jay Hawkins - A Portrait Of A Man And His Woman

1972 album by Screamin' Jay Hawkins contains gut-wrenching, supremely great takes!

Mixing the theatrical, the operatic and the ghoulish, Screamin' Jay Hawkins was a one-off whose shocking stage tactics helped him find singing fame. Recorded in Nashville in 1972 and his sole offering for local label Hot Line Records, A Portrait Of A Man And His Woman is Hawkins at his most accessible.

The title track's haunting delivery and a remake of Hawkins' calling card "I've Put A Spell On You," are balanced by tight takes of "Itty Bitty Pretty One," and Conway Twitty's "It's Only Make Believe," with plenty of grunts, shouts and dramatic interjections beneath Hawkins' operatic and gospel-tinged vibrato. Hawkins fans, take note!

Portrait Of A Man

Itty Bitty Pretty One

Don't Deceive Me

What's Gonna Happen On The 8th Day

Ashes

We Love

It's Only Make Believe

Please Don't Leave Me

Spell

I Don't Know

Guess Who

What Good Is It

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