Hank Wangford

Hank Wangford
Background information
Born
Samuel Hutt

(1940-11-15) 15 November 1940
Brocket Hall, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England
GenresCountry & Western
Occupations
InstrumentGuitar
Years active1976–present
Labels
Websitehankwangford.co.uk

Samuel Hutt (born 15 November 1940), known by the stage name Hank Wangford, is an English country and western songwriter.

Hutt adopted the persona of Hank Wangford when he decided to become a country singer in the late 1970s. "Hank is a good smoke screen. He can do things I can't do. He's my clown," Hutt told Howell Raines in 1988. "I actually had more of an identity crisis with [being Sam Hutt] than with Hank, because Hank is a fool. I quite like him. Dr. Sam was definitely threatening to become a monster." He called himself Wangford after the village of that name in Suffolk, which is where he first conceived the idea of using a nom de plume.