The Comedy of Errors: The Hawks - A Little More Wine, My Dear? (9 May 1992)

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A one-shot 1958 release through Del-Fi Records, A Little More Wine, My Dear? fuses a Mediterranean acoustic surround to Don Cole’s electric guitar licks and comes off as a Euro-country/pop instrumental mixing the opening riff to Tequila with the lyrical sensibilities of Flanders and Swann.  Clearly, writer Don Cole and his friends were a classy bunch when it came to getting their steady dates loaded.  No root beer for them, when they could offer, as they intermittently do in the style of a comatose Eddie Cochran, a glass of vino (as long as it’s the right type obviously).  I like to think, far-fetched as it may be, that Cole was looking to produce a more dance floor filling relation to Flanders and Swann’s similarly themed, but more lecherously articulate Madeira, M’Dear? which was recorded for their revue At the Drop of a Hat two years previously.  Curiously, the more troubling subtexts lie not with the Arizona rock ‘n’ roll band, but with the Christ Church University lads.

Just to note that this group are not the same Hawks who subsequently went on to back Bob Dylan and become The Band.



Videos courtesy of Vinyl and Shellac by starday (Hawks) and LeonPFB (Flanders and Swann).