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Reissue. Mixing the theatrical, the operatic and the ghoulish, Screamin' Jay Hawkins was a one-off whose shocking stage tactics helped him find initially fame in the mid-1950s. Recorded in Nashville in 1973 and his sole offering for local label Hot Line, A Portrait Of A Man And His Woman is Hawkins at his most accessible; the title track's haunting delivery and a remake of calling card "I've Put A Spell On You" balanced by bright takes of "Itty Bitty Pretty One" and Conway Twitty's "It's Only Make Believe," with plenty of grunts, shouts and animalistic interjections beneath Hawkins' operatic and gospel-tinged vibrato. Hawkins fans, take note! Licensed from Good Time Inc.
Tracklist
A1 Portrait Of A Man
A2 Itty Bitty Pretty One
A3 Don't Deceive Me
A4 What's Gonna Happen On The 8th Day
A5 Ashes
A6 We Love
B1 It's Only Make Believe
B2 Please Don't Leave Me
B3 Spell
B4 I Don't Know
B5 Guess Who
B6 What Good Is It