Kristin Hersh dug into her backlog of compositions for material of an intensely personal nature that she felt wouldn't be suitable for her band on her solo.

Features Song Lyrics for Kristin Hersh's Hips And Makers album.

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Performer – Kristin Hersh. Photography By – Andrew Catlin. Producer – Kristin Hersh, Lenny Kaye (tracks: 1 to 11, 13 to 15), Steve Rizzo (tracks: 12). Written-By – Kristin Hersh (tracks: 1 to 13, 15), W. J. Hersh (tracks: 6). Notes. Recorded at Stable Sound, Portsmouth, Rhode Island (USA). MFG. by WEA Manufacturing.

This album has an average beat per minute of 113 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 69/150 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist Hips and Makers. BPM Profile Hips and Makers. Album starts at 144BPM, ends at 69BPM (-75), with tempos within the -BPM range. Try refreshing the page if dots are missing). Recent albums by Kristin Hersh. Possible Dust Clouds.

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In 1994, Kristin Hersh took a sabbatical from her beloved and beleaguered Throwing Muses to record her first solo album, Hips and Makers. Mostly acoustic, entirely personal, Hips' songs touch the core of Hersh's daily life, specifically as it involves her husband and family, topics she rarely explored with her band. Produced by ex-Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye, Hips and Makers infuses the singer/songwriter tradition with a jolt of complexity and authority. Hersh still favors the taut, stream of consciousness lyrics she whittled down to the bone with the Muses, but she.

Hips and Makers is the debut solo album by Kristin Hersh, best known as the primary singer and songwriter of the band Throwing Muses. The album was released by 4AD in the UK on January 24, 1994, and by Sire Records in the US on February 1, 1994. In contrast to Hersh's rock-oriented work with Throwing Muses, the album is primarily acoustic, with Hersh usually playing unaccompanied. who sings backing vocals on the opening track, "Your Ghost. In addition to Hersh's own material, the album.

Martha Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and author, known for her solo work and with her rock bands Throwing Muses and 50FootWave. She has released eleven solo albums. Her guitar work and composition style ranges from jaggedly dissonant to traditional folk. In 1994, Hersh began a solo career on Sire/Reprise and 4AD as an acoustic performer, beginning with Hips and Makers, an album sparsely arranged around her vocals, guitar, and a cellist, in contrast to the volatile, electric sound of her band work. made an appearance on this first solo album. After receiving some airplay and major media coverage for the Throwing Muses album University in 1995, Hersh moved to Rykodisc for the band's 1996 album, Limbo, and released her solo album, Strange Angels in 1998.

Your Ghost' was Kristin Hersh's debut solo single, taken from 'Hips and Makers' her 1994 solo album. Michael Stipe also features.