{"id":2442084,"date":"2019-03-24T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T18:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=812591"},"modified":"2019-03-24T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T18:37:41","slug":"ethan-hawke-celebrates-both-album-release-of-ben-dickey-closing-of-true-west-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/ethan-hawke-celebrates-both-album-release-of-ben-dickey-closing-of-true-west-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Hawke Celebrates Both Album Release of Ben Dickey, Closing of \u2018True West\u2019 on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe wanted to celebrate the closing of<\/span> True West<\/span><\/em> with something beginning,\u201d Ethan Hawke<\/a> said Saturday night at a New York City party celebrating both the closing of Hawke and Paul Dano\u2019s performance of Sam Shepard\u2019s drama<\/span> True West<\/span><\/em> and the album release party of singer-songwriter Ben Dickey<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dickey, a longtime friend of Hawke who came to prominence in his lead role in last year\u2019s Hawke-directed biopic<\/a><\/span> Blaze<\/span><\/em> and is now signed to Hawke\u2019s label<\/span>, led his five-piece band at the \u201cDepartures and Arrivals\u201d-themed album release party through a blistering, 16-song, special-guests-filled set that mixed originals from his new album<\/span> A Glimmer on the Outskirts<\/span><\/em> with a slew of covers by everyone from the Rolling Stones and Nina Simone to Townes Van Zandt and Blaze Foley.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel lucky; I feel warm; I feel centered,\u201d Dickey, whose new second solo album hit stores two weeks ago, told<\/span> Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em> shortly before his set, which featured the album\u2019s producer, Charlie Sexton<\/a>, on guitar alongside a slew of guests that included the Walkmen\u2019s Hamilton Leithauser<\/a> and Hawke\u2019s daughter Maya Ray Hawke.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ethan Hawke introduced Dickey\u2019s performance with a touching personal speech that explained what he saw as the evening\u2019s cosmic connection between poetry, theater and music: \u201cWhether it was Hank Williams, Sam Shepard, John Malkovich or Steppenwolf, I wasn\u2019t sure what dream I was chasing, but I knew that whatever they did, that was it,\u201d Hawke said. Later, during his performance, Dickey told the story of being with Hawke in Canada in 2017 when they learned that Shepard had died,<\/a> the events of which inspired Dickey\u2019s<\/span> Glimmer<\/span><\/em> highlight \u201cThe Man With the Hammer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dickey\u2019s five-piece rock and roll outfit served as a consummate party band during their hour-plus set, which culminated with a thrilling three-song run with Leithauser, who covered Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Go Home With Your Hard-On,\u201d the Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cCrazy Mama\u201d and LaVern Baker\u2019s \u201cSaved,\u201d before Dickey ended the evening with a rowdy rendition of Roger Miller\u2019s \u201cKing of the Road.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really good to have an excuse to party,\u201d Hawke told the crowd earlier in the evening, \u201cAnd it\u2019s very hard to say goodbye to a character. You spend years of your life warming up to try to really to do something with regards to stepping inside the shoes of another human being. It\u2019s a very bizarre and weird thing to do, and one of the hardest things to do is to let go of it. So one of the ways to do that is to get extremely drunk and play music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe wanted to celebrate the closing of True West with something beginning,\u201d Ethan Hawke said Saturday night at a New York City party celebrating both the closing of Hawke and Paul Dano\u2019s performance of Sam Shepard\u2019s drama True West and the album release party of singer-songwriter Ben Dickey. Dickey, a longtime friend of Hawke who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 23:49:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}