Hank Dogs are an acoustic folk band from South London

London

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. The band members are Piano, her ex-husband Andy Allen (formerly of The Professionals

The Professionals (band)

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), and his daughter Lily Ramona. Their music is considered to be in the English folk tradition. They started out in 1992 at an acoustic club in South London. In 1998 they traveled to Seattle with producer Jon Kertzer and played at the Bumbershoot Festival there.

Their first album Bareback, produced by Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd

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, was well received and was named Record of the Month for WXPN

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 in Philadelphia.