Upcoming Appearances !! |
I've got two new shows to announce November 5th at City Tavern in downtown Dallas as a part of a singer/songwriter night. Then again on November 16th at The Tipperrary Inn again as a part of singer/s...
Posted by HankVanHawkins on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:06:00 PST |
Check out this video: Sleepy Head Blues |
Check out this video: Sleepy Head Blues
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Posted by HankVanHawkins on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:55:00 PST |
Ike ran me out of Galveston |
My week at the beach was cut short. We beat traffic by leaving ahead of the mandatory hurricane evacuation. I didn't get to play the Old Quarters open mics like I had been looking forward to eit...
Posted by HankVanHawkins on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:13:00 PST |
I’m no monk |
With thanks to the meditation camp I attempted to attend and to everyone's chagrin I left the monastery and the 10 day vow of silence early. I only got two days into it before I moved on and asked th...
Posted by HankVanHawkins on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:59:00 PST |
Turning over new leaves |
I've been through about as serious as soul searching as one can here lately. Next week I'm taking a sabbatical and a 10 day vow of silence to further quiet my mind and to rid myself of all the b...
Posted by HankVanHawkins on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:20:00 PST |
Mad Man Blues |
I got thirty three black cats
I got fourteen blood hounds
A crow that don't always sing
And an armadillo on a weather vane
that always goes around and around and around
I'm a wild man in this here wi...
Posted by HankVanHawkins on Wed, 21 May 2008 01:42:00 PST |
this blood aint my core only my bones |
Them black sheep blues suit me so well
I got them second hand from my old man
All along he's had them too through and through
Yet I ain't nothing like my old man
So what they say abou...
Posted by HankVanHawkins on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:56:00 PST |
My art |
Black land dirt Gospel
Blood red muddy water rising
Blue river rock bottom fool
Singing a bar room anthem
And a county jail madrigal
With words of concrete and steel
A broken golden hearted...
Posted by HankVanHawkins on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:43:00 PST |
Print in motion |
Rail headSteel horse Highway moan Box car Graveyard Rambling bone Kerouac Woody Guthrie Jimmy Roger blue walking tall All along the ...
Posted by HankVanHawkins on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:27:00 PST |
Getting better, novel growing longer, the week getting busier, brother getting hitched |
I've been at it. In fact I'm at it now more than ever beating away at the typewriter like a punching bag as much as I can here as of late. Even amidst not listening to music at all for awhile I still...
Posted by HankVanHawkins on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:02:00 PST |
