{"id":478,"date":"2010-02-04T09:18:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=478"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:18:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:18:30","slug":"review-ron-hawkins-10-kinds-of-lonely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/02\/04\/review-ron-hawkins-10-kinds-of-lonely\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ron Hawkins &#8211; 10 Kinds of Lonely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RON HAWKINS<br \/>\n<em>10 Kinds of Lonely<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-481\" title=\"RonHawkins_10KindsOfLonely\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/RonHawkins_10KindsOfLonely.jpg\" alt=\"RonHawkins_10KindsOfLonely\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>Somehow it seems unfair and hardly proper that Toronto\u2019s Ron Hawkins remains a rather obscure character in Canadian music. Any self-realized radio DJ with a decent library of tunes and a need to fill a Canadian content quota should be a little familiar with his \u201cother\u201d band, the Lowest of the Low, or his fine Ron Hawkins and the Rusty Nails albums. His latest solo ten-tracker tips the goodness scales well in his favour again\u2014Ron Hawkins can\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t be denied. Again, his striking, observational lyrics are in full flow here. Sad sacks and street corner poets, emotional has-beens and people scraping through life\u2019s dirt are all here and oh, so achingly familiar. Hawkins\u2019 hewn vocals add an earthy dimension to whatever he sings and his emotional delivery will keep you coming back for another listen to hear if the song has turned out any happier since the last time you tuned in. A must for fans and a positively enticing listen for anyone looking for honesty, integrity and grit in their musical diet. (Independent, <a href=\"www.ronhawkins.com\">www.ronhawkins.com<\/a>) <strong>Jeff Monk<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RON HAWKINS 10 Kinds of Lonely Somehow it seems unfair and hardly proper that Toronto\u2019s Ron Hawkins remains a rather obscure character in Canadian music. Any self-realized radio DJ with a decent library of tunes and a need to fill a Canadian content quota should be a little familiar with his \u201cother\u201d band, the Lowest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[816],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ron-hawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}