Canadian singer-songwriter Li’l Andy is proud to announce his European tour summer European tour in support of his recent album “The Complete Recordings of Hezekiah Procter (1925-1930)”.

The Complete Recordings of Hezekiah Procter is a live medicine show act, a dazzling display of virtuosity by Canada’s most revered old-time and folk musicians, and a performance art piece that takes audiences back to the beginnings of country music.

A collaboration between Montreal songwriter Li’l Andy and folk festival darlings Sheesham  and Lotus & ‘Son, The Complete Recordings of Hezekiah Procter sees Andy adopting the persona of “Hezekiah Procter” a long-lost legend of old-time music.  The group combines harmony vocals, fiddles, banjos, sousaphone and theatre to recreate the stage show of “Hezekiah Procter.”

The album began as Andy writing old-time country songs as Hezekiah Procter, imagining the singer’s troubled life and legend through song.  He then recruited the multi-instrumentalists of Sheesham and Lotus & ‘Son to record those songs on a “wire-recorder” – an actual antique piece of recording equipment from the 1920s.  The double album they made together sounds like a new discovery of 78rpms records from the early days of country music.

Included in the box-set is a novel written by Li’l Andy telling the entire, fictional story of Hezekiah Procter, a performer as talented and troubled as Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, or Robert Johnson.

Listen to “The Complete Recordings of Hezekiah Procter (1925-1930)”