Hank Cramer... Hank Cramer is one of the best-loved cowboy singers in the Northwest. His trademarks are a booming bass voice, a wry sense of humor, and smooth picking on a vintage flat-top guitar. Hank performs a wide repertoire of traditional music from the American and Canadian frontiers, including the songs of cowboys, miners, soldiers, railroad men, sailors, and drifters. Those themes fit Hank’s life story: over the years he’s been an underground miner, a Green Beret, shantyman on a square-rigged sailing ship, and wrangler for a high-country outfitter. Hank released his first album in 1982, and became a full-time touring musician in 1998. He has now recorded eighteen CD’s, three music videos, and two movie sound-tracks. Heartland Public Radio voted his recording of “Sweet Wyoming Home” to the Top Five Cowboy Songs of 2007. Texas Public Radio’s Random Routes named two of Hank’s songs to their Top Twenty for 2007. Northwest Public Radio’s Inland Folk ranked Hank’s CD “Songs From Maurie’s Porch” in their Top Ten acoustic albums of 2006. Hank’s appearances include the Northwest Folklife Festival (Seattle); the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering (Elko, NV); the National Oregon Trail Interpretive Center (Baker City, OR); the Tucson Folk Festival; the Tumbleweed Festival (Washington); the Alaska Folk Festival; Sharlot Hall Festival (Prescott, AZ); the High Desert Museum (Bend, OR); Western Music Association (Albuquerque, NM); and the Buffalo Bill Historic Center ( Cody, WY). When not on the road performing, Hank lives on a ranch in Washington’s Methow Valley with his cowgirl wife Kit, daughter Kelsey, and their many critters. He enjoys western history as well as western music. The Journal of Arizona History has published several of his articles on the Apache campaigns, and he teaches western history for the ElderHostel programs in Washington and Oregon.   You can learn more about Hank Cramer by visiting the Official Hank Cramer website. Just click here > Hank Cramer

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