American Songster: LARRY HANKS

On behalf of Larry Hanks, Deborah Robins, and Steven Strauss, it was a grand tour with great music, warm and receptive audiences, and chock full of friends and fans new and old.  Thank you so much for turning out to hear our good old songs sung simply.  Heading to the East Coast for the former Indian Neck Folk Festival, now called Circle of Friends Folk Festival, and some dates in May.  Stay tuned!

Only 36 years in the making!  American Songster and "National Treasure", Larry Hanks' SECOND durned solo album, "The Last Wagon", is NOW available for purchase via all your favorite on-line sources:

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Sung in Hanks' deep and melodious baritone, THE LAST WAGON features a lifetime of his favorite songs of Western Migration: cowboy and work songs, brags and ballads, and some silliness, too!

Story songs sung as nobody but Larry Hanks can sing 'em--…

We're excited to announce that, after LONG last, Larry Hanks has completed his SECOND solo album, THE LAST WAGON.

After 10 action-packed years touring and recording with Deborah Robins ("No Hiding Place", "Old Days", and "The Wheel of Time" albums), Hanks returns with a songbag filled with his most  beloved songs of the American West. 

Available for pre-sale through CD Baby beginning Oct. 27th via:

cdbaby.com/cd/larryhanks1

AND, thereafter via all the usual suspects on-line, and through the mail, THE…

To our Atlanta, Georgia friends: Sadly, we must cancel our June 23rd concert, due to hosts' family emergency.  So sorry to miss you all, we look forward to singing for you next year.  Meanwhile, all other tour dates remain in effect. 

Larry Hanks & Deborah Robins

Huzzah!  New dates for the Larry Hanks & Deborah Robins 2018 US Tour, "The Road to Obscurity", May 11-June 30, 2018.  We'll be all up and down the East Coast AND as far Southwest as Atlanta.  Tell your friends, tell your enemies!  More great OLD songs and charming (and not so charming!) stories of life on the road.

We are sad to report our need to remove ourselves from the "Guest" artists list at the FSGW Getaway this September, 2017.  Deborah Robins and I were very much looking forward to attending.  My mother-in-law has become suddenly incapacitated,  required hospitalization, and is now awaiting 6+ weeks of PT in a Skilled Nursing facility.  It will then be our responsibility to get her settled in an Assisted Living facility during the same time as the Getaway.  So very disappointed not to see our many friends and…

More to come very soon.  USA and UK tours for Larry Hanks & Deborah Robins.

If an understated approach to old American songs is what you crave, then you'll be sure to appreciate the long-awaited "Lone Journey" album by Deborah Robins.  With a tentative release date of April 15, 2016, it offers a gentle and heartfelt homage to Robins' many folksong influences, including: Raphael Boguslav, Bob Gibson, Fred Holstein, Utah Phillips, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Barbara Dane, Ella Jenkins, Sam Hinton, and, of course, Larry Hanks.

The CD will be available for sale directly from Deborah…

On the road again!  Join us from town to shining town on the East Coast.  Concerts in NYC, CT, Upstate NY, VA, GA, and DC-area.  Check site for details.

Tomorrow night, Wednesday, Nov. 12, you can listen to a broadcast of Jay Ungar and Molly Mason's "Dancing on the Ceiling: Basement Sessions", featuring segments with Larry Hanks & me, AND Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer.

It was a great live show with LOTS of in-studio music, so we know you'll have a helluva time.

The show will air on Northeast Public Radio at 8:06pm right after the news. They broadcast from 17 locations in NY State and the signal reaches parts Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,…