Hattie Wilcox - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hey. I am a singer-songwriter born in Raleigh, North Carolina. I was raised on Chopin and Debussy, hillbilly blues and soul. These sounds are in my blood and in my music, and the boogie sneaks in all the time. I’m singing mostly blues these days and just released my new CD, Red Bird Tattoo. You can hear all the songs on my website.SEPT 14, 2007: Great news this week! Just signed contract with Stimulus Films for "The Leaving" (featuring Wanda Vick on fiddle) to be used in "Grilling Bobby Hicks" film and soundtrack CD. You can watch the trailer on my website, as well as impromptu performance by Johnny Neel, who arranged all the songs and played keyboards and harp on Red Bird Tattoo. I’m also excited because a steady stream of music libraries are continuing to request songs including US, Canada, and Australia. Have heard from lots of blues radio stations who want to play new CD, so it’s been a good year. More blues at hattiewilcox.com, plus my instrumentals and more music for licensing. Stop by and say hi when you have time.

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Member Since: 9/24/2006
Band Website: hattiewilcox.com
Band Members: Hattie Wilcox and Straight-up Sound, Nashville: Johnny Neel: Keyboards, harp. Doug Jones, Brian Davidson and Mark Matejka: Guitars. Dennis Gulley: Bass. Daryl Burgess: Drums
Influences: Etta James, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Joan Osborne, Phoebe Snow, Tanya Tucker, Lacy J. Dalton, Linda Hargrove, Merle Haggard, Neil Young, Arlo Guthrie, Aretha, Little Anthony and The Imperials, Major Lance, Keb Mo, Lyle Lovett, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes, emptyself, The Commodores, Lionel Richie, Johnny Mathis, B.B. King, Annie Lennox, Bonnie Raitt, Tina Turner, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, George Gershwin, William Bolcom, Chopin, Debussy, Faure, Benoit Charest, Scott Joplin, Bob Nelson, Charles King, Mahi Beamer, Canned Heat, Bob Wills, Asleep At The Wheel, The Pointer Sisters, Al Green, Leon Russell, Johnny Neel, Michael McDonald, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Cream, The Flock, Yo Yo Ma, Mark O’Connor, Joe Venuti, Django Reinhardt, Jacqueline Dupre, k.d. Lang, Bobby McFerrin, Lydia Pense, Chicago, Rose Royce, Chet Atkins, Sly and The Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Mariah Carey, Diana Ross, Dr. John, Auntie Genoa, Robert Palmer, Van Morrison, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Johnny Frigo, Joe Cocker, Eva Cassidy, Prince, Aretha, Darius Milhaud, James Taylor, Norah Jones, Rickie Lee Jones, Diana Jones, Elizabeth Cotton
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Headless Hattie and the pirates along the North Carolina shore

When Blackbeard sailed up and down the coast of North Carolina, he often stopped at the little coastal port of Salter Path. In that town was a flaming red headed beauty known as Hattie. Blackbeard was...
Posted by Hattie Wilcox on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:58:00 PST

indie rock punk blues band

Hey everybody. I was writing a blog for my website and posting yet another bunch of sad lines writing out the ache in my mangled heart. I decided to google mangled heart and found the indie rock pun...
Posted by Hattie Wilcox on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:16:00 PST

SONG IN YOUR EYES

There was a song in your eyesAnd you sang it for meEvery time your lips openedTo meet mineNow each minute I tryTo breathe in a clean breathI choke on the thicknessOf the suffocating sadnessYour leavin...
Posted by Hattie Wilcox on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:08:00 PST

COLLAPSE (reposted by request)

Standing at the sinkRinsing the cherriesI feel a contraction in my middleI'm not pregnantIt's just a misalignmentSomewhere in my coreAnd I shake with the forceOf shifting tectonic platesMy heartbreak ...
Posted by Hattie Wilcox on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:34:00 PST

PINK PLASTIC LEI

He loved meLike a pink plastic leiBought for a partyUsed onceAnd thrown awayI encircled himWithout weightOnly the deepKiss of my entranceFlutteringI was pink rufflesEach layer of meFolded in on itself...
Posted by Hattie Wilcox on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:55:00 PST

SLIPPED

You slowly slipped your arms around meHeld me so . . . so tight, you lingeredYou poured yourself into my mouthPushed your longing into my bodyAnd when I wasn't holding onYou let goI slipped and fell a...
Posted by Hattie Wilcox on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:28:00 PST

All music is folk music

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."Louis Armstrong(1901-1971)
Posted by Hattie Wilcox on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:36:00 PST

PUSHED

Impulse controlYou can't take credit for anyWhen you've talked yourselfDown from desireWadded up what's left of loveAnd tossed it in your recycling binWhere it steadily decomposesIn the steam of old g...
Posted by Hattie Wilcox on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:28:00 PST

The courage to share and the courage to listen

"It is a native tradition to sit in a circle and talk--to share what is in your heart."~John Peters (Slow Turtle), WAMPANOAG~The talking circle is also a listening circle. The talking circle allows on...
Posted by Hattie Wilcox on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:25:00 PST

The words and spaces of heartbreak (repost)

Incarcerated HeartsAll I had to offer my loveWas a message from my heart every dayAnd the comfort of my body a few times a monthHe loved me and loved me and loved me untilThe poetry of so many days ap...
Posted by Hattie Wilcox on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:07:00 PST