Album Notes

This CD is a musical autobiography, to quote Northwest washboard legend Billy Hults, a sampling of forty years of his playing with the best of the best. Billy has backed them all: Jeffrey Frederick and the Clamtones, the Holy Modal Rounders, Jim Boyer, the Floating Glass Balls, Baby Gramps, Jim Page, Johnnie Ward, the Fly by Night Jass Band, Michael Hurley, Robin Remaily, Billy Kennedy and more. This is a musical history in the making, the most mellifluous washboard playing you’ve ever heard.

If you missed his "Wake" at Portland's White Eagle, you missed a gathering of several generations of the Northwest's musical family. All of them came to pay their respects, drink a beer, and have a last smoke with Reverend Billy Hults of the Church of the Rastafi Cowboy Buddha. The music and the company was so good, Billy (who hasn't died yet after all) is considering a second annual.

This CD gives you jug band greats, jazz wonderment and good old rock ‘n roll all wrapped into one great package displaying Billy’s amazing range of musical styles.