I love Gregory & the Hawk (Meredith Godreau). She's such a great Singer/Songwriter that it'd just be rude not to mention her at least once on the ArtistoftheWeek blog.
Her songs like,
Ghost
Harmless
Doubtful
Grey Weather
& Fin Song 8 (Orange River Remix)
are really great compared to most songs I hear nowadays on the radio. Despite the melody and the feeling being "too calm" the lyrics, vocals, and explorative melodies make up for that. I found out about Gregory & the Hawk by Pandora.com in 2006. (back when it was more about eclectic music instead of commercials and repeating semi-popular songs all day) The song it played to me all the time by her was, A Wish.
I loved the song so much I wanted to find out more about this artist but I lost track of time until about 2008 when I finally looked her up and found even more songs that I love from her first started with the Boats & Birds EP. At first I kind of glanced over the EP and tossed it aside for a day or two. Then I listened to it again and I then heard the beauty that I was not listening to at first listen. Personal note, if you're ever listening to Gregory & the Hawk, make sure to be alone and laying around because if you're multitasking and running around your house at about 1 or 2 in the morning you won't hear the inner beauty of the songs. I then moved onto her most recent album, Moenie & Kitchi. That album really blew me away, personally. Voice Like A Bell, Ghost, Doubtful, and Grey Weather were the first songs that stuck out to me. Then I found out about the iTunes Bonus Track Dare & Daring and I had to buy it because of my love for G&TH.
Overtime, I just loved all the songs on the album.
I explored more and more on G&TH that I found some good unreleased or secretly released songs from Meredith Godreau.
While I was looking up more songs I found goofy songs, heartfelt songs, collaboration songs and many songs from or by Meridith Godreau I also found out that there's a little war going on the internet about G&TH being a band or a solo artist.
To me, it's more of a solo artist than a band. Kind of like the band Blow.
G&TH had Meredith and some guy and then it was only Meredith, same with Khaelea (the Blow), she had some guy in the band and then it was back to Khaelea again.
All in All, I love Gregory and the Hawk, her vocals, melodies, vocal arrangement, lyrics, artwork, everything is great, and I hope she makes great songs for us until I pass.
Here's to you, Meredith Godreau.
P.S. - Meredith Godreau & Andrew Futral collaborated and made a band called, Fotuna Mikou, they released a 4-track EP that (i think) is no longer available through G&TH or Andrew Futral's websites. So I'm offering the songs to you, the public. I hope you like them as much as I did.
Free Downloads
Gregory & the Hawk
Ghost
Voice Like A Bell
Doubtful & Grey Weather
A Wish
Fin Song 8 (Orange River Remix)
Oats We Sow
Two Faced Twin
Dare & Daring[m4a file type]
Harmless
Coco[Demo]
S-Curve[Demo]
Fotuna Mikou
Over My Head (Metrocard) [The Fray Cover]
Talkin' In My Sleep
The Gambler
Waste Of Time
Official Website
Myspace
Youtube
Ghost by Gregory & the Hawk
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