Micah P Hinson

Micah P Hinson in Crawdaddy.
Well, he wasn't what i expected. I'd only heard the albums, with his rich deep voice, and imagined with the person connected to it would be! For some reason, possibly my lack of creativity, i'd come up with someone who looked like Mark Kozeleck, Tall, dark and brooding, with rock star hair. This wasn't the case!
He's small and squeaky and reminded me a lot of Vic Chesnut, although obviously upright! He was raised half as a hillbilly, as he says himself, which comes through straight away. If we were playing on stereotypes in movies, he'd be the son of the guy who owns the services station that your car broke down five miles outside of! Small, squeaky and almost rodent like, although his sense of humour comes through from the start! He attacks anyone he can, the strokes (my new e.p is four songs, 20 minutes long, only slightly shorter than the strokes first one) the libertines (i don't trash my rooms back stage, i like to save my money, for hand jobs later), non english speaking gigs (i asked the people from napoli if they were called Napoleans, they didn't like that!) etc.
Musically he has a great voice and is excellent on the guitar. My only complaint was the lack of a back up band, he had one guy with him who moved between drums and slide guitar with ease, but soetimes the set missed a fuller sound. Travelling from texas to play gigs in venues the size of crawdaddy, it may not be economical!
He was warm and humourous throughout, and even if you wouldn't like him for one of your friends, its an interesting insight into his world! Worth checking out if he's ever in town....