Shall we have a look at him?

He is the one on the left. As it happens, the one on the right is responsible for for introducing George Clinton to LSD and actually deserves a whole post/week of features of his own. But you know, give us a minute, we have a hangover.

As for the record, you can hear it here, on Mayer's myspace. He has cleverly used the version of it being played on Mark Ronson's radio show so that you can hear Mr Bigshot Producer Man say it is 'fucking good'. And do you know, it is. What we like about it is that it sounds perzackerly like a plaintive old soul record, and yet avoids the Ronson Retro Specialisms. What we are saying is that he has not just spaffed a load of brass section on it, and that was a good decision.

Anyway, what we like best about it is the lovely heart-shaped format:

It is nice to see people still bothering with coloured and interestingly shaped vinyl even though we are in a bloody recession. They could have just sent it off to a boring black plastic factory in Eastern Europe, and did not. Well done, everybody.

You can buy Just Ain't Gonna Work Out here for a very reasonable five squids.

Mayer Hawthorn & The County on the internets

EDIT

The nice peoples at Stones Throw have filmed the record going and round so you can watch that while listening to When I Said Goodbye, which is as good if not better than Just Aint Gonna Work Out and has AMAZING DOO-WOPS ON IT.

We do not want to sound like we are on Radio 2 or anything, but that was lovely.