Album Review: Man About Town by Mayer Hawthorne

A Strange Arrangement invoked 60's Motown.  How Do You Do dabbled with 70's Philly Soul.  Where Does This Door Go brought the 80's Funk.  Where will Man About Town take us?

5 Albums That Help Beat The Winter Blues

The snow just got here and I am already done.  I miss the sun and I miss the warm weather.  Why put on some sad sack music and get depressed?  Let these five albums be the sun on your face.

5 Albums That Changed My Life

Music is an audible timeline.  I can relate just about most life events with it.  Music is my drug. But every now and then I take music for granted.  At those moments it tends to turn my world upside down.  It will hit me with something that I just didn't see coming and make me see things in a whole new way. It will get me to wonder if I ever really understood music in the first place.  Music has the power to do that.  It can change your life.  These 5 albums did that to me. 

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Mayer Hawthorne @ The Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA 04/18/2012

This is a typical musical discovery for me.  Let me set the scene for you.

- After Midnight
- Backyard Tiki Bar
- A Night of Drinking with Friends
- Spotify

A friend and I were taking turns choosing songs on Spotify.  We were discussing top 5 artists and we had two in common.  Whiskeytown and Neutral Milk Hotel.  But then he hit me with a curveball.  He asked if I had heard of Mayer Hawthorne.  I was a little puzzled.  I had not.  He told me that he had recently seen him at a cool, small venue in North Philadelphia called Johnny Brenda's.  He told me about this brilliant concert full of music that was a throwback to Motown.