Birth name Samuel Hutt Name Hank Wangford Role Medical doctor | Instruments Guitar Genres Country Years active 1976–present | |
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Born 15 November 1940 (age 83)
Wangford, Suffolk, England ( 1940-11-15 ) Books Lost Cowboys: From Patagonia to the Alamo, On the Trail of the Lost Cowboys Albums Whistling In The Dark, Wake Up Dead, Best Foot Forward Record labels Charisma Records, Situation Two Similar People Martin Belmont, B J Cole, Reg Meuross, Ali Love | ||
Occupation(s) Physician, Musician | ||
The semi legendary hank wangford band appearance on the little large show
Samuel Hutt, known by the stage name Hank Wangford (born 15 November 1940), is an English country and western songwriter.
Contents
- The semi legendary hank wangford band appearance on the little large show
- Early and personal life
- The Hank Wangford Band
- No Hall Too Small
- Writing career
- Discography
- References
"Hank is a good smoke screen. He can do things I can't do. He's my clown," says Dr. Hutt, who has been struggling to balance his musical and medical interests ever since medical school at Cambridge University. His 1960s practice in a drug-addiction centre brought him into contact with a lot of rockers and wide renown as London's long-haired, rock-and-roll doctor, and later a television series. "If The Who had a first night, the tickets would be sent. I actually had more of an identity crisis with that than with Hank, because Hank is a fool. I quite like him. Dr. Sam was definitely threatening to become a monster."
Early and personal life
His first recording was credited as Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup with "Jabberwock"/"Which Dreamed It" issued on UK Parlophone R 5696 in May 1968. He is co-credfited as the writer as "Sam Hutt" on both sides together with Lewis Carroll, the songs are adapted. In Sam's family background is radical: his father Allen (a journalist and expert on the history of printing) was a lifelong Communist. During the NUM miners strike in 1984/85, the Hank Wangford Band toured extensively with Billy Bragg and the Frank Chickens as "Hank, Frank and Billy" performing at trade-union benefit and anti-racist gigs. It was during such a benefit for the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1984 that Hank and the band were attacked on stage by a group of right-wing skinheads, an event that has been immortalised in the song "On The Line".
The Hank Wangford Band
A chance meeting with former Byrds member Gram Parsons, who played him the song "You're Still on My Mind" (from the album Sweetheart of the Rodeo), led him to country music.
The 1984 Edinburgh Festival Fringe saw the Hank and the Wangfords achieve fame (if not fortune) with their show being nominated for the Perrier Award. Fringe Sunday also saw the importation to Edinburgh of the sport of cow-pat flinging. Unfortunately, this required hard cow-pats as an essential part of the process. BBC Radio 1 DJ Andy Kershaw had to put out an appeal for cow-pats which later had to be dried in a microwave oven for them to work successfully.
No Hall Too Small
Hank has also toured with Reg Meuross on the "No Hall Too Small" tour of village halls throughout the UK as part of the Arts Council-funded National Rural Touring Forum (NRTF).
Writing career
Hank writes an occasional series of travel articles for The Guardian newspaper and is president of the "Nude Mountaineering Society".