People listening to the latests Elbow's album "The Seldom Seen Kid", would have been surprised by the voice of Richard Hawley in the song "The Fix" (and an amazing table guitar solo at the end). The song is about two schemers planning to fix a horse and retire on the winnings, and sounds like one of those songs extracted from a Rat Pack film. Apparently both Hawley and Elbow's singer, Guy Garvey conceived the song when they shared flight to Tennessee.
The song describes how are they fixing the horse, messing the saddle and the track and finally how are they going to enjoy with the earnings once the race is finished.
And I like how this song describes that feeling of power the two men have, they are the only ones that know, the rest don't, they are creating the future. Oh how much do we like winning, and some times what a nice feeling is to feel more clever than the rest.
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Buen guitarrista este Richard Hawley, creo que desde la separación de Pulp ha tenido cierto éxito en su carrera en solitario, pero reconozco que no he escuchado hasta ahora nada de él. Sí que vi hace un par de años a Jarvis Cocker en Madrid en el Summercase y me decepcionó su actuación. La canción no está mal, pero Elbow tiene mejores composiciones y mejores discos... Eso sí, suenan muy bien en directo...
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