''The Final Tour'' is a live album by American
soul blues singer
Ted Hawkins, released in 1998.
The recordings capture Hawkins on his last
concert tour in 1994, weeks before his death. The album received mixed and positive reviews.
Recording
The first 16 tracks formed a set at
McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California, on November 5, 1994. The next three songs formed a
suite
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about Hawkins' life growing up in Mississippi, recorded on October 8, 1994, at The Pres House at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison. Finally, "A Thing Called Love" was performed at Goochi's, in Wenatchee, Washington.
Critical reception
Alex Henderson of
AllMusic wrote that the album "shows how great Hawkins was sounding during the last months of his life" and called it magnificent. Rock critic
Robert Christgau
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gave the album a more muted review, giving it an honorable mention.
Track listing
All songs written by Ted Hawkins unless otherwise stated
#Intro – 0:24 (a spoken-word introduction by Hawkins)
#"
There Stands the Glass
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" (Russ Hull,
Webb Pierce, Mary Jean Shurtz) – 2:49
#"Watch Your Step" – 2:44
#"Strange Conversation" – 5:16
#"Sorry You're Sick" – 2:18
#"Bring It on Home Daddy" – 3:16
#"Big Things" – 3:02
#"Revenge of Scorpio" – 2:56
#"Groovy Little Things" – 3:41
#"Ladder of Success" – 3:13
#"
Part Time Love" (
Clay Hammond) – 5:24
#"I Got What I Wanted" (
Brook Benton,
Margie Singleton
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) – 3:07
#"Bad Dog"" – 2:24
#"The Good and the Bad" – 4:56
#"All I Have to Offer You Is Me" (
Dallas Frazier,
A.L. Owens) – 4:23
#"
Long as I Can See the Light" (
John Fogerty
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) – 2:44
#"Biloxi" (
Jesse Winchester) – 4:17
#"The Lost Ones" – 3:16
#"Missin' Mississippi" (
Byron Gallimore
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, Alan Mevis, William Shore) – 3:57
#"A Thing Called Love" (
Jerry Reed) – 2:53
Personnel
*Ted Hawkins –
acoustic guitar, vocals
*Phil Garfinkel –
engineering
*Jerry Gordon – production
*Wayne Griffith – engineering
*
Bill Wasserzieher
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History
His earliest articles appeared during the late 1960s and early 1970s in the then Knight-Ridder-owned ''Independent'' and ''Pre ...
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liner notes
References
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Ted Hawkins live albums
1998 live albums
Evidence Music live albums
Live albums published posthumously