" THE ONE NIGHT ONLY TOUR".

Al Hunter could well be New Zealand music's best kept secret.

He is little more than a cult figure in his homeland, yet his voice is rich with echoes of country music legends George Jones and Merle Haggard. His songs sit comfortably alongside American acts of his ilk such as Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle.

It is ironic,then that Hunter is best known in New Zealand as the faceless singer of the hugely successful AMP insurance jingle There's a Blue Sky Waitin' For Me, penned by Callie Blood, Ian Morris and Rob Hall. Alan Hunter started out as a rhythm and blues/soul vocalist in the late 1960's in Auckland band 'Killing Floor' before joining the Leon Russell-like Cruise Lane.Other groups Hunter spent time with were the Hunter McCallum Band and Hillman Hunter and the Rootes Group.

Hunter was becoming more influenced by the country music of Willie Nelson, George Jones and Merle Haggard, and made a decision to devote his live act to it.

Jon C Farkas in Tamworth's Country Music Capital News:
"Here is a Kiwi with more than an ounce of originality in his blood, one of the rare New Zealand Country performers who deliver the goods- sometimes raw, always edgy and enticing, often scintillatingly sublime and forever magnificent."

Nick Bollinger in The Listener:"one of the country's greatest singers. He's as accomplished in his chosen field as Dave Dobbyn, Annie Crummer, or Kiri Te Kanawa are in theirs."