Hank Woji (Presented by the SFFAMC)

Hank Woji

A self-described “Jersey Shore Ex-Pat turned West Texas Desert Rat,” Hank Woji cut his musical teeth as a bassist in the super charged Asbury Park, NJ music scene of the 1980s & 90s, playing in some of the Garden State’s most dynamic and innovative bands, but it was his chance move, in 2009, to the far West Texas desert town of Terlingua, that has most reshaped his life and his music.

Critics have described Hank’s music as “acoustic-wielding, sharply observed, Americana all the way” and being “in the best tradition of the Texas troubadours like Guy Clarke, Townes Van Zandt and Butch Hancock” and that “His troubadour style also comes very close to the style of Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger, or as we heard on ‘Nebraska’ from Bruce Springsteen.”

Of his recently released 6^th CD, Tony Award winning songwriter, Anaïs Mitchell says: “Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams is a sprawling meditation on mythic American themes.” And John Apice of Americana Highways states: “It’s a mosaic of music and lyrics that have become in Hank’s hands a short story about what America should be.”

Over his 20+ year songwriter career, Hank has performed with such notable artists as: Jonathan Byrd, Jaimee Harris, Bob Livingston, Grant Peeples, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Pete Seeger.

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