Imagine a homeless street musician with a soulful singing voice that earns him comparisons to R&B great Sam Cooke and, as it turns out, he also writes songs that are lauded alongside those of Kris ...

As musicians go, the late Venice Beach busker Ted Hawkins seems to have been the prototypical fish out of water when he convened with artist/producer Michael Messer and his band in a London studio in… ...

When I first heard about a tribute album in the works for Ted Hawkins, my reaction was, “About damn time!” And when I heard Cold and Bitter Tears: The Songs of Ted Hawkins, my two-word summation was, ...

Ted Hawkins spent 30 years perched on a milk crate, singing supernaturally soulful folk on Venice Beach for coins. Months after his major label debut in 1995, he died. Two decades after the fact, this ...

Austin acts and others with local connections make up the bulk of the track list on “Cold and Bitter Tears: The Songs of Ted Hawkins,” a tribute album to the late blues-folk great coming Oct. 23 on ...

Ted Hawkins' story sounds like fiction: Born and raised poor, Hawkins experienced jail and mental institutions, three marriages, thousands of hours busking on street corners and beachfronts, lots of ...

World premieres of albums or singles are, for the most part, the territory of The Wall Street Journal or USA Today, publications with national and international reach or else trade publications like ...

Calling Ted Hawkins a blues artist unnecessarily narrows the breath of the man’s repertoire and reach. Closer to a modern troubadour his songbook drew on a wealth of music and influences. Busking on ...

Ted Hawkins, a country and blues singer, guitarist and writer known for his piercing songs of sorrow and joy, died of a stroke on Dec. 29 at the Centinela Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 58 and ...

Calling Ted Hawkins a blues artist unnecessarily narrows the breath of the man’s repertoire and reach. Closer to a modern troubadour his songbook drew on a wealth of music and influences. Busking on ...