Description
Hobo — Hé, Magyar Joe!, GrundRecords (CD)
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Product Details:
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: GrundRecords
- Artist: Hobo (Földes László)
- Catalogue No.: GR131
- Release Year: 2018
- UPC: 5999860095101
- Genre: Blues Rock / Hungarian Rock
- Language: Hungarian
Product Features
- Format: CD (digipak)
- Tracks: 27
- Made in the E.U.
- Condition: Brand new, factory sealed
Overview
Hé, Magyar Joe! is a sprawling 27-track song-cycle from Hobo — Földes László, the gravel-voiced figurehead of Hungarian blues rock. It tells a life story in songs: childhood, first loves, crime, prison, reckoning, and a kind of hard-won grace at the end. Concept albums rarely commit this fully.
Musically it's rooted in blues and rock, but the real engine is the language — Hobo's lyrics are literary, plain-spoken, and unflinching. Tracks like "Az életfogytosok bibliája" (The Lifers' Bible) and "A smasszerek tízparancsolata" (The Guards' Ten Commandments) read like short stories set to a band.
For anyone following Hungarian rock and the blues tradition Hobo built his career on, this is a substantial, deeply written record.
Interesting Facts
- Hobo is the stage name of Földes László, one of the most important figures in Hungarian blues and rock since the 1970s.
- The album is a full narrative song-cycle, tracing the life of its "Magyar Joe" character from childhood through prison to redemption.
- Hobo is known for setting poetry and literary texts to music across his long career, including works by Allen Ginsberg, József Attila, and others.
- The release was supported by NKA, Hungary's National Cultural Fund.
- At 27 tracks, it's one of his most ambitious single-disc concept works.
Track Listing
- A család / 2. Bankár fiának lenni / 3. Hazafelé az iskolából / 4. Találkozás a zenével / 5. Első szerelem / 6. Második szerelem / 7. Húsz négyzetméter boldogság / 8. A gyilkosság / 9. Joe a tükörbe néz / 10. Feladja magát / 11. Út a tárgyalásig / 12. A védő, az ügyész és az ítélet / 13. Szürkület / 14. Emlékezés naponta / 15. Az életfogytosok bibliája / 16. A pórul járt kasszafúró balladája / 17. A smasszerek tízparancsolata / 18. Isten keresése / 19. Az átkozott vasárnap / 20. A megbánás / 21. Nem bírom tovább / 22. Új Magyarország / 23. Vakember blues / 24. Utcazene / 25. A részegesen testvérisége / 26. Az angyalok is itt járnak közöttünk / 27. A temetőben
Publishers
Released by GrundRecords in 2018 (catalogue GR131), with support from NKA. Made in the E.U.
Followed Joe's whole story? A short note helps the next reader.
