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• Album: Story Songs
• Featured Artist: David Grisman
• Release Date: 03/25/2022
• Record Label: Sperry Hunt
• UPC: 198002775498 All songs by Sperry Hunt
• Contact and media requests: https://sperryhunt.com/contact/
  
  Tracks and Stories
  
• 1. The Poet of Santa Fe County (4:01) Folk – uscgh2288335
  An American Van Gogh story written in three letters home by a young Texas songwriter who left his love to write songs “worthy of the ages and you.” Like Townes’ Pancho, he sank into his dreams.
• 2. Boys Town (3:48) Folk – uscgh2288336 (Featuring David Grisman)
  Norte boys out to score. True story. 300 miles to Mexico. Rosa was the prettiest girl in Boys Town. She loved me for free in Boys Town. I told my buddy let’s take her home.
• 3. Bueno the Roan (4:38) Folk – uscgh2288337
  Sometimes you need a horse or a friend to lead you home
• 4. Round Road Home (3:25) Folk  uscgh2288338 (Featuring David Grisman)
  Lost on a lullaby voyage, an old sailor discovers the circular nature of life.
• 5. The Glitter Is Gone (2:40) Folk – uscgh2288339 (Featuring David Grisman)
  Love, lies and loss in the Smokie Mountains..
• 6. Door in the Dark (4:47) Folk– uscgh2288340
  The tale of the smuggler’s son.
• 7. The Gulf of Mexico (4:25) Folk – uscgh2288341
  Some dreams take over. Some dreams take you under. Some just drag you where they you where they go.
• 8. Broken Not Beautiful (3:27) Folk – uscgh2288342 
  The title tells it all.
• 9. Like a Stone (4:09) Folk – uscgh2288343
  When wind blew hard, and the windows shook.
• 10. Blues Suitcase (2:41) Blues – uscgh2288344
  A murder blues with Stagger Lee roots,
• 11. The Last Light (4:25) Gailc Folk – uscgh2288345
  A father grieves on a rocky shore.

Bio

Texas-born Sperry Hunt writes Contemporary Folk songs. His album Story Songs, released in 2022, is a collection of touching literary stories about himself and the people he has known. He was a student of Michael Bloomfield, Bob Dylan’s favorite guitarist. He wrote Songwriting: How To Write Music and Lyrics. A versatile storyteller, Sperry has written six screenplays. Two were optioned. Another script won two Second Rounder Accolades in the Austin Film Festival and two Finalist awards on Coverfly.com. He has written over seventy songs and dozens short stories – one won a literary fiction award. He has performed his songs in Texas, California, Washington, and Idaho where he is a member of the Idaho Songwriters Association. He won a songwriting showcase award at the Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase. He has had radio plays on KDVS, WDIY and KVMR. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas and a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Washington.

He will record a new album in the spring of 2025 in the same studio with the same personnel, including David Grisman, as he did with Story Songs. (See below.)

Credits and the Origin Story

Story Songs was recorded at Rainshadow Studios in Port Townsend, Washington. (See https://sperryhunt.com/the-new-album/ for photos and the origin story.)

The lineup was:

• Sperry Hunt: rhythm guitar and vocals
• David Grisman: mandolin and featured artist
• Joe Breskin: lead guitar
• John “Greyhound” Maxwell: dobro
• Jon Parry: fiddle
• Bernie Reilly: cello
• Troy Ferguson: double bass
• Everett Moran: produce and sound engineer
• Conor Sisk: mixing engineer
• Steve Fulton: recording engineer
• David Glasser: mastering engineer

RADIO

KTBZ 08/13/22 Sperry Hunt CD Release w/special guests

The Friday Night Song Club is a collective of songwriters from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Participants are given a word or a phrase around which to write a song. The results are broadcast on their weekly online Song Club Radio Hour broadcast, as well as on our own KPTZ. Song Club is the brainstorm of Seattle-based Joel Myers, lead guitarist for Port Townsend’s own Kilcid Band.