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Hollywood Hex

by Michael Wookey

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geraldjamesellis This is one of my best finds in recent years. The instrumentation is amazing and the voice and songwriting are top-notch. The styles are across the board and it all fits into a wonderful listen. I can't wait for the next release.
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Sailor 04:18
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Bane 02:46
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Motherfucker 01:24
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Lucy's Meat Market (LA)- strings
The Safe House (London)- piano
Chez Tom (New York)- Mellotron, piano and percussion
The Cabin (Kansas)- drums
Chez Margaret (New York)- toy piano
Chez Pauline (Aveyron) - double bass and vocals
The Barn (Le Cantal) - guitars and vocals
Xylomatic (Paris)- vocals and all other instruments

Mixed by Peter Lyons, The Shipping Container, London
Mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson, Greenhouse, Iceland

The Section Quartet: strings on Red Hot Dollas, Sailor, Hollywood Hex, Do Right Fear No Man, Bane, Bane (reprise) and Small Voice Of Calm

Franck Boyron: trombone and tuba on Bane and Sailor.

Pauline Dupuy: double bass on Bane, Living By The Sea, Do Right Fear No Man, Shut Your Mouth And Dance With Me and Small Voice Of Calm. Voice on Long Live The Meadows and Shut Your Mouth And Dance With Me.

Jean-Christophe Lacroix: trumpet on Living By The Sea, Pistol Whipped and Bane. Violin on the intro of Sailor.

Thomas Boudineau: trombone on Living By The Sea

Pierre-Alain Giraud: bass and Bb clarinet on Living By The Sea and Do Right Fear No Man

Ryan Pope: drums on sailor, Bane, Living By The Sea, Red Hot Dollas, Do Right Fear No Man, Motherfucker and Shut Your Mouth And Dance With Me

Margaret Leng Tan: toy piano on Sailor

Dona Davos: voice on Living By The Sea, Bane (reprise) and Small Voice Of Calm. Piano and bells on Long Live The Meadows

Peter Lyons: electric bass on Red Hot Dollas

Pierre Chandeze: bowed saw on Living By The Sea

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released April 6, 2018

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Michael Wookey Paris, France

Many years ago, a Salvation Army pump organ — dusty from service and silent since the War — settled into the hands of a fifteen-year-old boy named Michael Wookey.

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