Kaw Liga ~ ~ ~ The High Country Band

Kaw-Liga ~ ~ ~ The High Country Band (5 Piece)
Cover as recorded by: Hank Williams
Songwriters: Hank Williams and Fred Rose
Audio & video produced by McCarty Ln Studio 1990/10-5-2024
in Rochester, IN.
Recorded on a Sony WalkMan Cassette Player/Recorded.
Recorded in Delong, IN at Try out sessions, 1990.

Gene Gamble Jr - R. Guitar - Lead Vocals
Mike Andrews - Lead Guitar - Vocals
Mike Andrews Jr - Bass Guitar
Steel Guitar - Warren Pearson
Turkey Caller Jones - Drums

Shure Beta 58 Microphone
Sony WalkMan Cassette Player/Recorder
Pioneer CT-W504R Stereo Cassette Player/Recorder
Windows Media Digital Conversion
Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio 16 (Editing & Mixing)
YouTube Movie Maker 13

"Kaw-Liga" (/kɔːˈlaɪdʒə/ kaw-LY-jə) is a country music song written by Hank Williams and Fred Rose. Hank Williams was from Alabama, and would vacation on Lake Martin. The Lake Martin-area was once the home of Kowaliga, a former unincorporated town and a historically African-American community that was active from roughly 1890 until the mid-1920s. When the song was written it was originally Kowaliga, but Fred Rose changed the spelling to "Kaw Liga". In 1953, "Kowaliga Day" was proclaimed by Alexander City Mayor Joe Robinson.

"Kaw-Liga" is one of just a handful of songs that Williams wrote with Fred Rose, who produced his records and published his songs through his company Acuff-Rose. Rose often "doctored" the songs Williams composed, making suggestions and revisions, with biographer Roger M. Williams (no known relation) noting that Rose's contribution to Williams' songs was probably craftsmanship, whereas Williams' was genius.