Ernest Hardy writes about film and music from his home base of Los Angeles. His criticism has appeared in the LA Weekly, the LA Times, Vibe, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Source, Millennium Film Journal, Flaunt, Request, Minneapolis City Pages, and the reference books 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide, among others. He’s written liner notes for Chuck D Presents: Louder Than a Bomb, the box-set Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America, Curtis Mayfield: Gospel, and the box-set Superstars of Seventies Soul.
He is the winner of the 2006 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence, honoring his liner notes for the Chet Baker CD, Career 1952-1988. A Sundance Fellow and a member of Los Angeles Film Critics Association, he has sat as a juror for the Sundance Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and Los Angeles Outfest. He’s also co-programmed the FUSION Film Festival in Los Angeles. Blood Beats: Vol. 2, the follow-up to critically acclaimed Blood Beats: Vol. 1, will be published by RedBone Press in Fall 2007.
Ernest Hardy on Music, Writing, and Being Moved
"Saturday mornings in my early ’70s, Alabama childhood home were weekly
cleaning time. My mother would turn the oldies station on the radio,
break out the mop bucket, cleaning supplies and gloves, and go to town.
Her soundtrack was the Shirelles, Jerry Butler, Sam & Dave, and a
host of one-hit wonders long forgotten by most but whose songs she
still knew by heart. It was the music of her youth, though she wasn’t
yet old, and it moved her. She’d go into her own zone, singing along to
old soul tunes, and my sister and I instinctively knew to let her have
that time to herself. She had a beautiful voice, light and sweet. I
learned very early to respect and love the power of music. . . ."
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