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Songs from the Lost Highway - The Poetry & Western of Hank Williams ANDY BAYLOR has brought together some of the most renowned country roots musicians and singers in the land to present SONGS FROM THE LOST HIGHWAY... the Poetry and Western of Hank Williams ...songs of life, songs of love, free-wheelin’ good times, blues-filled hard times featuring Ben Franz, (The Waifs) Steel guitar, Jeff Mercer (Slim Dusty) guitar , fiddle champion, Donal Baylor, Peter Baylor guitar and vocals, Dave Patterson(The Cartwheels) , double bass, Ron Mahony on drums , with special guests – Loretta Miller, Julie O’Hara, The Baylor Brothers, Leslie Avril, Wendy Pfeiffer(The Cartwheels) & Paul Wookey

“It seems that ever since I picked up my first guitar, I’ve been hearing the name of Hank Williams. His songs are everywhere and he’s influenced everybody. Whatever style of popular music you’re into- country, blues, bluegrass, rockabilly, rock, pop, folk and gospel, Americana, – somewhere in the back of it all sits Hank Williams with his crackling’ voice and his guitar a’ strummin’.

At once, traditional and completely modern, Hank ,the archetype travelling troubadour, sings of a time in the American South when the war was over and the new world was wide open. You could do anything, go anywhere and be anyone. But this new freedom brought with it a whole lot of heartaches and disillusionment . The best songs of Hank Williams not only chronicle the emotional landscape of that era but, like other great works of art, stand outside  time and genre; they help tell us who we are, where we come from , and touch our souls.

Andy Baylor has been an interpreter of the music of Hank Williams since the heady days of ‘70’s Melbourne when hip hillbilly country was heard a’ ringin’ down the streets of old Fitzroy and Carlton. With The Dancehall Racketeers, he toured the backblocks and back-roads of Australia spreading the sounds of Hillbilly Swing, Bob Wills and country fiddle; with his famous Cajun Combo, he single-handedly introduced a Cajun/ Australian hybrid  form of bar-room music which re-interpreted  Hank’s most famous songs and demonstrated stylistic connections between Hank Williams’ melodies and traditional Cajun music along the way; Over the last few decades he has recorded over a dozen independent CD’s which offer a broad range of styles and he has shared the stage with everybody from  the world’s biggest rock stars to the most humble country busker.