Plainclothes Tracy

Plainclothes Tracy Is A Five-Piece Indie Band From Knoxville TN. The Band Consists Of Kym Hawkins Vox - Guitar Jonathan Kahler Rhythm Guitar Eric Grass Drums Brian Kelly Lead Guitar And Blake Sensebaugh Bass . The Name Plainclothes Tracy Comes From The Original Title Of What Later Became The Dick Tracy Comic Strip. “To Us It Was Kind Of Funny ” Says Hawkins. “It Sounds Like A Girl Who Dresses Kind Of Plain But It’s Really A Hard-Assed Detective.” They Released Their First EP In July Of 2010 And A Digital Release ITunes/Amazon Mp3 Followed In September. The Songs On The New CD Are Heady Ruminative Sometimes With Just A Hint Of Folk Mindful Of Both ’90s Indie And So-Called Adult Alternative. Hawkins—whose Mother Is Karen Hawkins A New York Times Best-Selling Author Of Historical Romances—is The Centerpiece Of It All. Her Clever Wordplay And Her Performance Chops Make Simple Songs Indelible. Take The Disc’s Lead-Off Track “Fort Knox Graffiti ” A Song About The Strange Little Things You Notice When You’re Falling In Love With Someone. Hawkins’ Breathy Verse Falls Somewhere Between A Rap And Stream-Of-Consciousness With All Kinds Of Been-There-Done-That Flotsam Popping In And Out Of Her Run-On Verbal Flow. Tellingly Hawkins Says She Was Affected By Poets As Much As By Songwriters Particularly Elizabeth Bishop And A.E. Houseman. “I Like People Who Have A Rhythm To Their Poetry ” She Says. “I Like Bob Dylan And Leonard Cohen. And I Love Ella Fitzgerald. But In The Musical Spectrum As Far As What We’re Doing We’re Just Trying To Write Music That Has Meaning And That Takes People To A Happy Place.” read less