HW: Daniel Lanois

[Brian Halligan]

Andy Gilham wrote:
> I remember this coming up several years ago - the "Hawk Wind" in question
> may or may not be the cold wind off the lake that blows through Chicago...
> the album's not bad, from what I've heard, but I really like the album he
> produced for Emmylou Harris, WRECKING BALL.


The Chicago theory seems plausible. It is after all the "windy city." On the
other hand, AllMusic says he's from Hull, Quebec and moved with his family
to a suburb of Hamilton, Ontario. So maybe a Hawk Wind is related to
Hamilton--a nickname for a weather system akin to the "Alberta Clippers" or
"NorEasters" the Northeast US gets hit with from time to time. In any case,
I don't see a Hawkwind connection in the lyrics I just found online:

The suburb walls are closing in
I've looked at you and I've seen you
through your curtain

With a naked eye from not far,
I've shed a tear for you,
a flowing fountain

Flaming trees,
I'm lost in fields of your hair

>From where the hawkwinds kill
and the blood runs thin
I'll go now, fly I will

>From inside the gates of the stripping yard
I can't touch you, I can't feel for this thunder town
I want you now while my body is young,
my mind is strong away from thunder town

>From where the hawkwind kills
and the dam runs deep
In this land of heaven, not so sweet

I turn my back to a godless night
I hear the mighty stranger over thunder hill

>From where the hawkwinds kill
and the blood runs thin
I'll go now, fly I will...

Over the mountain I must go
To see the valley below
Thunder town...