Search - Hasil Adkins :: Poultry in Motion

Like peanut butter on the moon

zack zagato | Portland, OR | 05/19/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"CowabungaggHHHH. 'Dis here platter is it! I'ma long time Haze fan and hafta admit that his recent output can be circumspect but hold the phone Mildred cuz cousin Hasil has done it agin'! Well, close enuff as this here wax izza compilation of trax spanning five decades and all concern chicken. Chicken! A concept album about chicken! Take THAT 2112! The liner notes and pix are great because the good folks at Norton care about the Haze and the 21st century and the Haze's contribution to it. Yep. This is the perfect ceedee for any barbeque, oil change or bris. Its even got the demo version of Chicken Walk; served RAW! Mmmm. This would be a good place to start or to add to your Haze collection, sure 'nuff. Git it!"

The Best Chicken-Themed Album In History!

Robert I. Hedges | 11/13/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It is frequently said, but in this case actually true, that this album must be heard to be believed. This is easily the best album devoted exclusively to the subject of chicken that I have ever heard (ok, to pick nits, it's also the only album about chicken I have ever heard, but that's a minor point). I have heard many, many albums by innovative "outsider" musicians, but this is one of the greatest of them all.



The fowl songs on this CD span the years Adkins regularly made music about chicken, 1955 to 1999. There is a definite stylistic progression in that time from the primitive "Chicken Walk" from 1955, to the oxymoronic "Chicken on the Bone" from 1999 which discusses eating chicken on the bone from McDonalds, which, of course, only serves pressed chicken McNuggets without bones. The irony!



This is a wonderfully strange CD, and although it is my first CD by Hasil Adkins, it will certainly not be my last.



If you want a CD about chicken, I can recommend no other CD higher than this one.

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We'll miss you Haze

TimothyFarrell22 | Massachusetts | 06/30/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"There are few figures in American music that can be called true originals. Hasil Adkins, folks, is a true original. There isn't a single soul who sounds like him. And despite the frequently odd subject of his songs (the whole album is about chickens), he sings with much conviction, trying as hard as he can to make you take what he is saying seriously. He is a one-man band who plays acoustic guitar and a drum peddle at the same time, which makes him unique enough. But his subject matter is what truly pushes him over the edge. On previous albums, he explored decapitation and eating penut butter on the moon. On this album, he devotes his entire set to out fine feathered freinds, the chicken. And, he was around for about fifty years, not until recently we lost him. RIP Hasil Adkins, a true american original (1937 - 2005)."