"A BluegrassCountry Tribute To Hank Williams"

Fifty years gone and still the "influential" stability of the music of the most enduring singer/songwriter of all time, Hank Williams, continues to be "expressed" and "carried" on in hearts all around this globe of ours.

The first day of the year 2003 saw the 50th Commemorative Memorial Anniversary of this "Country Legend" being remembered and celebrated in many ways. Most noted of those ways, were the releases of hundreds of "tribute" songs and albums to the memory of the man that inspired, wrote and recorded many of them himself.

One doesn't usually think of Hank Williams so much in terms of "Bluegrass", but "SPRUCE PINE" "did". Neither does one usually "link" "Bluegrass" with the Czech Republic, but "SPRUCE PINE " is that "link". Last August, 2003 one of the most notable "Bluegrass" groups of European fame gathered in a studio located in the Czech Republic to record an album consisting of sixteen well known "Country" songs made popular by Hank Williams. Included was a song written by Hank Williams and Ramona Vincent titled "On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain".

When "SPRUCE PINE " emerged from that studio, they had produced the most incredibly unique "Bluegrass" sound ever heard. A sound that gave their "tribute" album a taste of success at the top, even before it was released. At the last minute, a decision was made to go back and add two "bonus" tracks; one of Hank Williams and a brand new one contributed by two very gifted songwriters, who teamed up to pull off "Hank's Old Scratched Record". Robert Ackerman of Palmer, Alaska and Jim Murphy of Brick, New Jersey (of the Pine Barons Bluegrass Band) giving us eighteen of the best "Bluegrass" has to offer. Just give a listen!