{"id":3228,"date":"2011-11-29T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2011-11-29T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:38:59","slug":"ron-hawkins-straightjacket-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/11\/29\/ron-hawkins-straightjacket-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Hawkins \u2013 Straightjacket Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3229\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2011\/11\/29\/ron-hawkins-%e2%80%93-straightjacket-love\/ronhawkins_straightjacketlove\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3229\" title=\"RonHawkins_StraightjacketLove\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/RonHawkins_StraightjacketLove-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\nRon Hawkins is one prolific mofo. Since 1991, the man has pumped out well over a dozen albums, EPs and singles as a member of seminal Canadian alt-rockers Lowest of the Low, at the helm of his own band the Rusty Nails and as a solo artist. <em>Straightjacket Love<\/em> is his latest effort, and it follows in the vein of 2009\u2019s <em>10 Kinds of Lonely.<\/em><br \/>\nFans of Hawkins will find Ron returning to themes of alcoholism, star-crossed love and down-and-out struggle and strife. At best \u2013 on cuts like \u201cThe Sickness\u201d and \u201cWaitin\u2019 on Something that\u2019s Already Here\u201d \u2013 Hawkins finds new ways to explore these themes with, for the most part, stripped down arrangements and rootsy twang. At worst, a few moments \u2013 \u201cKill the Lights,\u201d to pick on one track \u2013 come close to kicking the last out of the same can he\u2019s been kicking at since <em>Shakespeare My Butt\u2026<\/em><br \/>\nI\u2019ve been a fan of Hawkins\u2019 writing and music for over a decade now, which is half as long as he\u2019s been releasing the stuff. I absolutely love Lowest of the Low\u2019s first 2 LPs, though I\u2019ve never really warmed up to much of Hawkins work with the Rusty Nails or the latter day Low output. However, I\u2019ve had <em>Straightjacket Love <\/em>on repeat for weeks now, and while a few tracks on the album are forgettable, the bulk of the disc is solid gold. (Independent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronhawkins.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.ronhawkins.com<\/a>) <strong>Sheldon Birnie<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Hawkins is one prolific mofo. Since 1991, the man has pumped out well over a dozen albums, EPs and singles as a member of seminal Canadian alt-rockers Lowest of the Low, at the helm of his own band the Rusty Nails and as a solo artist. Straightjacket Love is his latest effort, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[816,817],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ron-hawkins","tag-root-cellar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}