Tongues and Tails by Sophie B. (Singer/Song Hawkins (CD, Apr-1992, Columbia (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	074644679724
Artist:	Sophie B. (Singer/Song Hawkins
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1992
Record Label:	Columbia (USA)
Genre:	Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
2. California, Here I Come
3. Mysteries We Understand
4. Saviour Child
5. Carry Me
6. I Want You
7. Before I Walk on Fire
8. We Are One Body
9. Listen
10. Live and Let Love
11. Don't Stop Swaying

Details
Producer:	Ralph Schuckett, Rick Chertoff, Ralph Schuket
Distributor:	Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	AAD

Album Notes
Personnel: Sophie B. Hawkins (vocals, keyboards); Roger Greenwalt (acoustic 12-string guitar); Eric Bazilian, Rick DiFonzo, Gary Lucas (guitar); Fred Zlotkin (cello); Ralph Schuckett, Peter Wood (keyboards); Mark Egan (bass); Omar Hakim (drums); Mino Cinelu, Cafe (percussion); Sammy Merendino (programming).Engineers include: Steve Churchyard, John Agnello, Stewart Lerman.Recorded at Electric Lady Studios and Messina Music, New York City.Personnel: Sophie B. Hawkins (vocals, keyboards); Eric Bazilian, Gary Lucas , Rick DiFonzo (guitar); Roger Greenawalt (12-string guitar); Frederick Zlotkin (cello); Ralph Schuckett (keyboards); Peter Wood (synthesizer); Omar Hakim (drums); Mino Cinelu, Café (percussion).Audio Mixers: David Leonard ; Steve Churchyard.Recording information: Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY; Messina Music, New York, NY.A New York eccentric type, Sophie B. Hawkins began her music career studying ethnic percussion. She moved to jazz, then was a drummer in a punk band while sidelining as an actor and performance artist. Hawkins' debut disc Tongues and Tails is as eclectic as her career choices. The songs ranges from the hook-filled mainstream pop of "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" to an off-center rant about mothers in "Carry Me" that dissolves into feedback mayhem. Hawkins stitches together bits of jazz, folk, tribal, rock, and atmospheric new age noodling while efficiently camouflaging the seams. Somehow, it all works with repeated listens. The common thread is her distinctive, streetwise but unjaded voice. ~ Roch Parisien

Editorial Reviews
3 Stars - Good - ...pretty one-track, but impassioned...On the way, presumably, to finding her own voice, amid a rich stew of synthesized orchestras and street sounds she sings variously like Madonna, Kate Bush and Polly Harvey...
Q (19941201)

4 Stars - Excellent - ...Her selling point is a general air of sensual desire....nudges originality while remaining rooted in the traditional pop/rock constructions of chart-toppers past and present...
Q (19920901)

3 Stars - Good - ...Hawkins's voice varies from wail to plead, growl to whisper, croon to chirp, Joni Mitchell to Bjork of the Sugarcubes....a searching, seductive debut...
Rolling Stone (19920528)