Artist description To Frank- I met Frank in North Carolina in Southern Pines He was playing guitar and singing and sounding fine I said Hey Buddy how about doing some kind of funny magic track Anything for my jeering fans he said I'm Frank Hardwick He gave me belly laughs at Jimmy's Firehouse Pub Frank was passing out old time rock and roll and peace and love He was one of those musicians who had to fight off all the chicks You're Mister Entertainment I yelled you're a first class act Frank Hardwick Then I saw him again up in Daxwood Recording Studio Doyle said Bill meet Frank I said Frank I love your show Do you think you can help my poems my music's kind of sick I've heard you can perform miracles Mister Frank Hardwick He picked up his bass guitar and said Bill listen to this I rolled on the floor he was giving me laughing fits Frank I said Old Buddy one day maybe with your help I'll have a hit It's so much fun playing with you you're Great Frank Hardwick When I heard he passed away I was so distressed To Frank's family friends and fans I say Frank was one of the best To me he was the funniest every time I hear him I get a kick I still laugh my ass off when I think about Frank Hardwick. I love you, Buddy, Bill Henry Buffington

Music Style Rock, Folk, Country

Artist History It was 110 degrees, late August, Augusta, Georgia, when I decided to become a musician. My parents thought it would be a good idea for me to work with my Grandfather one summer. So there I was in the card room of the Enterprise cotton mill, dreaming of a career in music. I had learned to play the guitar a year or so before and would go home every night after work and practice. It was an easy decision. All I knew at the time was that I might be working in a cotton mill the rest of my life. I became determined not to let this be my fate. So I bought the book of “Bob Dylan’s Complete Works” and a harmonica and the future took root. That was the summer of 1966, I haven’t seen the inside of a cotton mill since. Instead, I traveled all over the United States performing my own songs, and many others too. I met a lot of great people - even some famous ones. Taught music appreciation, theory and application to any one who would listen, sang in church more than once. Sought out and performed as many different types of music as there are in as many different kinds of places as there are. Loved it, hated it, lived it. My heroes were all hobos; Carl Sandburg, Woody Guthrie, Harry Partch... I guess you could say I got the traveling bug naturally, I am an Army Brat. I like to think of myself as a wandering minstrel in the folk/blues tradition, poet/musician and ex-cotton mill worker. In 1982 I came off the road and settled down in Hope Mills, North Carolina. I have performed all over the state, at clubs, festivals, coffee houses and many special events. I am grateful to the people of North Carolina for accepting and supporting me. I feel lucky to have been allowed to live the past thirty-three years with passion and to have life reward me with challenges.Frank Hardwick, soloist, singer/songwriter, poet, bass player/lead singer of the Bow Street Runners, passed away on Tuesday, 8 January 2002, apparently from complications due to pneumonia. All are saddened by his death and will greatly miss his wit, friendship and leadership.

Albums every story has a moral

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Location Fayetteville, NC - USA

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