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Happy Hour is an album by Ted Hawkins.[6][7] It was released in 1986.[5]

Happy Hour
Studio album by Ted Hawkins
Released	1986
Studio	Music Lab, Los Angeles
Genre	Blues
Label	Windows On The World, Rounder
Producer	Bruce Bromberg, Dennis Walker[1]
Ted Hawkins chronology
Watch Your Step (1982) Happy Hour (1986) On the Boardwalk (The Venice Beach Tapes) (1986)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s	B[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
Tom Hull – on the Web	B+ ()[5]

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote that "Hawkins blended soul and urban blues stylings with country and rural blues inflections and rhythms, making another first-rate release."[2] Trouser Press praised Hawkins's "sturdy emotional delivery."[8]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Theodore Hawkins, Jnr.; except where indicated

1. "Bad Dog"
2. "Happy Hour" (Dave Mackechnie, Steve Gillette)
3. "Don't Make Me Explain It"
4. "The Constitution"
5. "My Last Goodbye"
6. "You Pushed My Head Away"
7. "Revenge of Scorpio"
8. "California Song"
9. "Cold & Bitter Tears"
10. "Gypsy Woman" (Curtis Mayfield)
11. "Ain't That Pretty"
12. "One Hundred Miles"

Personnel

• Ted Hawkins – vocals, guitar
• Dale Wilson – lead guitar
• Augie Brown – guitar
• Dennis Walker – bass
• Johnny Greer – drums
• Elizabeth Hawkins – vocals
• Robert Cray as "Night Train Clemons" – guitar on "You Pushed My Head Away" and "Gypsy Woman"

References

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