Hank Wangford in Twickenham Dec 16th

Subject: HANK WANGFORD in Twickenham Dec 16th
From: evansakes
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 02:11 AM

Dec 16th HANK WANGFORD £ 10 adv/ £12 door

Our Christmas 'special' this year features Hank Wangford in collaboration with Cabbage Patch favourite, Reg Meuross. If Daniel O'Donnell is the brightly scrubbed face of British country music then Hank is its guilty conscience, its dark and troubled grubby soul. Hank has picked at the miserable underbelly of country music for twenty years, spreading the word with his two television series, "Big Big Country" and "The A to Z of C&W" and his books "Lost Cowboys" and "Hank Wangford Vol 3 The Middle Years". This messianic derailment onto the path of country music came from befriending and playing with Gram Parsons in the seventies. This was at a time when Hank - as Dr Sam Hutt - was a rock 'n roll doctor. Since then Hank has fronted a series of hot country bands, aiming for country non-believers. It's not all misery. Some of his songs and stories are sad and some funny, constantly walking the thin line between laughter and 'the dark'.

As well as his songs and books, Hank has penned travel articles for the likes of the Sunday Telegraph and The Guardian. He has written on Romania, Georgia, Argentina, Uruguay, Coney Island, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Falkland Islands' tour, Route 66, Branson Missouri and even on his son's marriage by Elvis Presley in Las Vegas. Hank continues to be President of the Nude Mountaineering Society and still continues his medical work in sexual healthcare and contraception. He has trained doctors and nurses in Georgia and in Bosnia during the war and regularly visits Transylvania and Romania where he has had a project for women since 1991 and has helped set up two clinics. Because of deep corruption in the Romanian Health service, he is working on plans for an independent clinic. Hank knows that laughter, tears and music are the greatest healers we have-this is why he loves Country music.

This no-frills tour of ministadia will see Hank and Reg driving their own cars ! carrying their own guitars! mopping their own brows ! ! (but hopefully not buying their own beers !) They will share with you their love of the dark heart of Country music and feature toetappers and tearjerkers with such Divorce-Defying Country near-classics as "He Forgot to tell you he was a Married Man", "You've Already put big old Tears in my Eyes - Must You Throw Dirt in My Face", "Never wear Mascara when you Love a Married Man", "I've Forgotten what it is that I was Drinking to Forget", that old spell-along-a-Gospel favourite "S-A-V-E-D" or the egg-related "If You Ain't Married Sunny Side Up - Try Divorce Over Easy".

Though they have taken these duo performances to small halls up and down the country Hank has only made occasional and very brief detours into the murky world of the British folk scene. However with Reg to hold his hand and lead the way this may soon change. Hank is very happy with this because both his mum and dad were folk.

http://www.hankwangford.com/

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