Hips and Makers

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. Other credited musicians include Jane Scarpantoni on cello and Michael Stipe of R.E.M., who sings backing vocals on the opening track, "Your Ghost." In addition to Hersh's own material, the album features a cover of the traditional song "The Cuckoo".

Hips and Makers
Studio album by
Kristin Hersh
ReleasedJanuary 24, 1994
RecordedApril–October 1993
StudioStable Sound, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
GenreIndie rock, folk
Length50:21
Label4AD, Sire
ProducerLenny Kaye, Kristin Hersh
Kristin Hersh chronology
Hips and Makers
(1994)		 Strange Angels
(1998)
Singles from Hips and Makers
  1. "Your Ghost"
    Released: January 10, 1994
  2. "A Loon (as Strings EP)"
    Released: April 5, 1994

"It's personal, literally so," Hersh said, "Full of skin and coffee, shoes and sweat and babies and sex and food and stores – just stupid stuff that's really a big deal."

The album peaked at #7 in the UK Album Charts, the highest placing of any of Hersh's offerings on her own or with Throwing Muses. The album peaked at #197 on the US's Billboard 200 Albums Chart. It also peaked at #10 on the US's Billboard Heatseekers Album Chart.

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