Artist description Honky tonk country band, will play bars, shindigs, and weddings

Music Style Traditional Country

Musical Influences Hank Williams

Similar Artists BR5-49, The Mavericks, Hank Williams, Dwight Yoakam

Artist History Leland Frank is an innocent in a world gone crazy. He is a slight man with courtly manners, a country singer and songwriter. He doesn't talk much. Carries a little puppet theatre with him from town to town. Puts on shows for the kids. It's the year 2033 and half the population of North America has been wiped out by a virus of unknown origin. In this chaotic time, the Ministry Of Health has taken power. Medicine is the new politics. The ministry attempts to control people's minds and bodies with drugs and lies. Same old thing. It's getting so a person just can't dream anymore and Leland is nothing if not a dreamer. The world he moves in is the mythological landscape of dream gone wrong. Everywhere there is ruin and decay, the graveyards are overflowing, the wreckage of cars and machinery litters the countryside, whole towns are abandoned and those that aren't are fortified against intruders. It's ten years since the plague has run it's course but panic and hysteria are never more than a breath away. Leland accidentally gets caught up in the lynching of two government agents by a right wing religious cult. He dies but is brought back to life. The Ministry come to suspect that he is involved with anti-government activities. He is innocent, simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Group Members Leland Frank - vocals, acoustic guitar, harp Lefty Johnstone - drums Trixie Malone - fiddle, piano, accordian, vocals Buddy Willis - electric guitar, mandolin, vocals Henry "Hank" Fournier - bass, vocals Little Joe Porter II - pedal steel

Instruments Guitar, bass, drums, fiddle, steel, mandolin, piano, accordian

Albums God's Big Radio

Location Nelson, B.C. - Canada

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