ABOUT

In 1956, Westbrook, Maine resident and television repair man Al Hawkes founded the Event Records label. With his wife Barbara helping run the business and his friend Richard Greeley helping run the studio, Al began producing records by local Maine artists and popular musicians on tour in Maine "from away." Throughout the 1950s and 60s, he created some of the most highly regarded country, Bluegrass, and rockabilly recordings - including songs by Dick Curless, Lenny Breau (as a teenage guitar virtuoso), Curtis Johnson, Hal Lone Pine and Betty Cody, Charile Bailey, the Lilly Brothers and Don Stover.