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I SEE HAWKS IN L.A.

God is in the rain

About Me

We're from Southern California, Minnesota, and North Carolina, and we play what used to be called country music but is now known as alt country or folk music.

Our lead singer might be an anarchist, but he won't say. Our bassist is a libertarian. Our guitarist believes that totalitarianism may be an inevitable consequence of population density. Our drummer is a new father. Our fiddler knows 7,000 songs and doesn't leave his house except to go outside.

We sing of whales, hawks, distilled spirits, secondary highways, Klansman/Senators, gunnery ranges, weary love, preachers and housewives, herbs and herb growers, ferns and fern allies, Jackpot, Texarkanada, Caleximexico, Mexicalexico, Provo, and Vermont.
We encourage home gardening, solar panels, and an escape route.
Here's what Jonny Whiteside of the L.A. Weekly says about us:


"These freewheeling lords of California psych country approach their music almost as if it were a portal, an unseen threshold that, once crossed, promises a wholly unpredictable experience. The Hawks singular style always operates on an epic scale, exploring weird panoramas of hallucinatory metaphor with a sound as much traditional hillbilly as it is accelerated lysergic-rock spontaneity. Up, up and away."
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Member Since: 10/30/2005
Band Website: iseehawks.com
Band Members:
Influences: Roger Miller, Noam Chomsky, Hillman and Parsons, Brantley Kearns, Mike Stinson, anonymous, Hildegarde Von Bingen, Bill Monroe, James Burton, Kenny Buttrey, Latin Mass, Old Californio.
Sounds Like: Allman Bros., Byrds, Chilaquiles, Dirt, Eagles, Frogs, Geese, Hawks, Interstates, Jerry, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Prince, Quicksilver, Redbone, Statler Bros., Tinwhistles, Ululation, Vermont, Waylon, X, Y, and Zima. And Pima.

MOTORCYCLE MAMA VIDEO:

BARRIER REEF VIDEO:


EXEUNT PUB - HAWKS, TONY, AND KIP IN ENGLAND '06:

Record Label: Western Seeds Records and Big Book Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NEW CD "HALLOWED GROUND" MAY 20

We're locked in. Mixed, almost mastered and manufactured,and locked in to a May 20 release on Big Book Records. Staytuned!
Posted by I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:56:00 PST

THE SNOWY WHITE GRAPEVINE PEAKS

It is 43F as we pass the altitude sign. Mt. Pinos off to the left beyond the artificial shores of Pyramid Lake. No water skiers today. No wake boarders pulled across strange tasting waters. It is wi...
Posted by I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:54:00 PST

HAWKS BRUSH GRAMMY MAGIC

Our good pals Polka Freakout have been nominated for a Grammy! Rob and Paul L have two songs on the Polka Freakout CD, and are keeping our fingers crossed for our two stepping brethren. ...
Posted by I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:53:00 PST

THE EARTH IS A SELF REGULATING ORGANISM


Posted by I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:18:00 PST

Home Recording Is Great Fun

It really is. You set up your limited collection of Royer mics (purchased for a song before Mr. Royer became the toast of Recording Engineer and Musician Magazine), fire up your just adequate PreSonu...
Posted by I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:50:00 PST

The New Polka Supergroup

Misses Kim and Pamita were kind enough to create a special Tuesday night Grand Old Echo so that Los Angeles could get its first taste of Polka Freakout. And lo, it was good.** A report from last nig...
Posted by I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:48:00 PST

West On 46

It's the Friday kicking off Labor Day weekend and time to abandon this clearly godforsaken SoCal desert. Yes, fellow and feline Angelinos, we are living in a desert. Deserts have dry brown hills, ve...
Posted by I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:47:00 PST

Home Recording Is Great Fun

It really is. You set up your limited collection of Royer mics, purchased for a song before Mr. Royer became the toast of Tape Op and Musician Magazine, fire up your just adequate PreSonus preamp, an...
Posted by I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:49:00 PST

Forbidden Griffith Park

We snuck into forbidden Griffith Park the other evening to view the fire damage to our most trekked east side trail. In the SoCal spirit of "whatever," you're stopped by a stern guard at the Commonwe...
Posted by I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:48:00 PST

Snapshots from Global Warming

It's a Monday afternoon in Woodland Hills, temperature a dry 102 F, and a Mini Cooper is parked on Ventura Boulevard, gleaming in the sun. Inside a young woman is napping, cooled by her air condition...
Posted by I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:17:00 PST