A fixture in the Minneapolis folk music community for over fifteen years, The founding members of Prank Williams met almost two decades past in the mammoth manse of an unknown Irishman deep in the St Paul hills. The search for different musical genres and life experience separated the two for years until, at the crossroads of political turmoil and epidemiological uncertainty, they were reunited. Christopher ""Hollywood"" Hollister, founder and singer for the rabble rousing local favorite Broken Spoke, and Tony Petersen, guitar hero of Duluth favorites Social Animals, have created an alt-americana, symphonically diverse, sonically experimental body of work.