Peter Grudzien (1941 – 2013) was an American country/psychedelic singer-songwriter, photographer, commercial artist, musician and recording engineer.
In the 1950s he started listening to Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Horton, and similar artists.
Peter had a recording contract at the age of sixteen with the Pell Brothers, whom he called "Brooklyn hillbillies".
[citation needed] In the 1960s and '70s, Grudzien was active in the Greenwich Village folk/bluegrass scene, which included artists such as John Herald, Peter Stampfel, and Phil White.
The album was almost entirely written, played, and produced by Grudzien except for the piano intro in "The Innocents", transcribed by a friend whose name he has forgotten.