dira: Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier (Hathaway and Lewis)
Dira Sudis ([personal profile] dira) wrote2012-02-10 02:49 pm

Purely hypothetical, obvs

If James Hathaway were going to play/sing a song to entertain/distract/soothe a very young child (old enough to learn/sing/repeat/ask about any lyrics he includes), what would he play and/or sing?

For those not familiar with Hathaway and his demonstrated musical preferences:

1. He's an English guy--from Oxfordshire, educated at Cambridge, nearly became a Catholic priest but wound up a cop--born in the late 70s or so. He's about 30 at the time the hypothetical situation is taking place.

2. The hypothetical situation is taking place a few years ago. Any music from 2009 to the present is off limits, much as I would love to have him singing Lady Gaga.

3. He plays guitar in a group that does "world music with elements of jazz, rock, and medieval madrigals".

4. He went to a world music festival wearing a RUN DMC t-shirt. Uh. IDEK.

5. Given the opportunity he turns off Wagner and puts on "The Boys Are Back in Town" at Lewis's place.

6. He plays a 1948 Gibson L5 PE Guitar with a honey-blond finish and a Charlie Christian pickup, and has collected the autographs of several famous guitarists whose names I (shamefully, I am sure) don't recognize: Martin Taylor, Dave Cliff, Phil Lee, Pat Metheny, Russell Malone....
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[personal profile] riverlight 2012-02-15 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Because everyone needs Swedish orchestral pop in their lives.

Clearly!

And I'm soooo glad you included Drake. I confess, as soon as I started thinking about it I got all excited, and then when I wrote it up in this comment I just got so caught up in the idea that it's now my head canon. So. Yay Hathaway playing Nick Drake on his guitar = love.

(ALSO MIDNIGHT ADDICTION YES.)