Mayer Hawthorne – Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out from Stones Throw on Vimeo.

Folks, Mayer Hawthorne is the real deal. How many artists get signed to Stones throw after releasing two songs? Well, this is one of the cats out here making real music. I had a recent chance to catch him at the Echoplex. Mayer and Sharon Jones are the ones repping hard for Soul music right now.

The Detroit native, now LA migrant, is making headlines with the likes of Gilles Peterson, Mark Ronson, and music lovers everywhere. Mayer has a great story. He was making this music by himself, for only the few folks to appreciate it (family & friends) and then gets picked up by PB Wolf to create a whole album’s worth of material. Talking about living the dream.

Oh yeah, did I mention he plays all the instruments himself, Hawthorne produces for his group Now on as well as with DJ’s under the name Haircut.

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