Based in Tucson, AZ, singer / songwriter Hank Topless has shared stages with and / or provided support for: Les Paul, Junior Brown, Kinky Friedman, Joe Ely, The Outlaws, Pete Anderson, Al Perry, Skip Heller, Robbie Fulks, Jim Goad, Tom Walbank, Jim Bachmann, Scott Biram, Jesse Dayton, Split Livers, Al Foul, Gary Stockdale, Whitney Rose, Kevin Daly, Reverend Payton’s Big Damn Band, Calexico, and many more. Finalist in multiple iterations of yearly “Best Of Tucson,” in the country music category.
Growing up on a ranch in central Arizona, there was a lot of country music on the radio. This took awhile to sink in. After quite a few years banging around with obscenely ridiculous underground extreme rock ‘n roll / noise, Topless “went country” around 1990. He masterminded the essentially invisible “all-star” Tucson underground-country group Topless Opry (2000-2004)- their never-to-be-remembered album “No Phoenix Blues” (2002) achieved minimal notoriety / radio play, based on the merits of its bold, honkytonk-style cover of Lou Reed’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties.” Hank’s more recent solo albums “It’s So December” (2011) and “Big Black Heart” (2017) have received critical, if minimal, acclaim.
