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Hasil Adkins (pronounced “Hassil,” not “Haysil”) (April 29, 1937 - April 26, 2005), Punk Rock pioneer, One-man band, was an Appalachian country, rock and roll, blues musician though frequently considered rockabilly and sometimes primitive jazz.
Hasil was born desolate in Boone County, West Virginia, where he lived throughout his life. He was the youngest of 10 children, and was both severely depressive and hyperactive.
Nicknamed “The Haze”, Adkins, claimed a repertoire of over 9000 songs including over 7000 original compositions, recorded scores of small, micro-label 45s and is responsible for the birth of Norton Records, Psychobilly and a dance called “The Hunch”.
His music can be sad, humorous and/or frantic.
Recurring themes in Adkins’ work include love, heartbreak, hunchin’, police, death, decapitation, commodity meat, aliens, and chicken.
Some of his best known songs are “She Said,” “No More Hot Dogs,” “Beautiful Hills,” “We Got A Date,” and “Chicken Walk”.
Adkins recorded an entire album devoted to chickens entitled Poultry in Motion also including such songs as “Chicken Run,” “Chicken Hop,” “Chicken Flop,” “Chicken Wobble,” and “Chicken On The Bone”.
After the mid-1990s, he began performing less though remained dear to music critics and celebrants of all things outsiderish, such as Joe Coleman, and John Zorn. Hasil Adkins is a very strong influence on the band The Cramps. Adkins’s cult status is kept alive to the present day by the growing appreciation of, and demand for the work of mavericks and misfits.
Hasil was born desolate in Boone County, West Virginia, where he lived throughout his life. He was the youngest of 10 children, and was both severely depressive and hyperactive.
Nicknamed “The Haze”, Adkins, claimed a repertoire of over 9000 songs including over 7000 original compositions, recorded scores of small, micro-label 45s and is responsible for the birth of Norton Records, Psychobilly and a dance called “The Hunch”.
His music can be sad, humorous and/or frantic.
Recurring themes in Adkins’ work include love, heartbreak, hunchin’, police, death, decapitation, commodity meat, aliens, and chicken.
Some of his best known songs are “She Said,” “No More Hot Dogs,” “Beautiful Hills,” “We Got A Date,” and “Chicken Walk”.
Adkins recorded an entire album devoted to chickens entitled Poultry in Motion also including such songs as “Chicken Run,” “Chicken Hop,” “Chicken Flop,” “Chicken Wobble,” and “Chicken On The Bone”.
After the mid-1990s, he began performing less though remained dear to music critics and celebrants of all things outsiderish, such as Joe Coleman, and John Zorn. Hasil Adkins is a very strong influence on the band The Cramps. Adkins’s cult status is kept alive to the present day by the growing appreciation of, and demand for the work of mavericks and misfits.
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Hasil Adkins - Big Fat Mama
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Hasil Adkins No More Hotdogs
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Dog-Shit Blues
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Hasil Adkins- No More Hot Dogs
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BarahSachman wrote:
hasil adkins be my boyfriend forever
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Sekhem wrote:
he's got one crazy laugh
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Justin1983 wrote:
I uploaded five more Hasil pictures.... vote! =)
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tylerivy wrote:
cool.
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lykofws wrote:
A one of a kind rockabilly frantic one-man band who bashed out ultra crude rock 'n roll tunes about sex, chicken, and decapitation into a tape machine in a W. Virginia shack... If his life would had been a work of fiction, no one of those "common sense" people would have ever believed it.
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vandaleyes wrote:
love it.
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TANK_Ex_Mortis wrote:
Whoa!
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country_jam wrote:
unico
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PigmeatI wrote:
Hasil was a helluva a good guy. Knew him from the time I was a pup. RIP ol' buddy.
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metawirt wrote:
fundamental
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elreak wrote:
Hasil IS rockabilly.
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jazzfunkgreat wrote:
hot dog baby
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dvessel wrote:
Adkins is completely insane! Hah, I love it.
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oledole wrote:
Unique!
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AppleofDiscord wrote:
incredible.
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OneDrunkWalking wrote:
Wow, Kid Rock really let himself go, huh? : ) I must admit I had never heard of this guy at all until Last.fm.... Now I cant believe I ever lived w/o his songs.
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damn i love songs about decapitation and hot dogs, muahahaha.
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ikhon wrote:
let's do like we did like we done last night!
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lauauri wrote:
of course gahoo..
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gahoonisme wrote:
desolate perfectly describes boone county. btw, anyone have some mp3's?
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