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[bold text] RON HACKER & the Hacksaws [/bold text]
Ron's BIO:
The first time I got the blues, I mean really got the blues, was in 1956. A friend and I got caught breaking into parking meters. I was eleven - he was twelve. Off we went to the juvenile center. The counselors in the center were young Afro-Americans in their twenties and they loved their music, like young dudes do. In '56 their music was Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Jimmy Reed. I fell in love with the music and it's been a part of my life since then. As I've gotten older I've tried to concentrate more on playing the Blues than living them." After teaching himself to play guitar, Ron met the late Yank Rachell, famous partner of Sleepy John Estes. Yank trained Ron on the finer points of Delta Blues, and they became life-long friends in the process.
The actor Peter Coyote helped Ron get his first gig in San Francisco at a neighborhood coffee shop. It wasn't long before Ron put together the Hacksaws and was tearing it up in clubs all over the Bay Area.
Since then, Ron has played every major festival in Northern California, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the San Francisco Blues Festival and the Marin County Blues Festival. Ron has also toured extensively in Europe playing major festivals in Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and Norway.
Ron has put out SEVEN albums which include "No Pretty Songs", "Bar Stool Blues", "I Got Tattooed", "Backdoor Man","Burnin", "Ron Hacker and the Hacksaws live in the Netherlands", "mr. Bad Boy, live solo show" and "My Songs", a superb 'best of' remastered album.
A description of Ron's deltablues, boogie and chicago blues: high energy, genuine, raw, intensive, great slide guitar songs, heartfelt vocals and a splendid Drummer and Bass player.
Ron Hacker played all famous Blues Festivals in the USA, Norway etc.
Ron Hacker - guitars, vocals
T Moran - drums
Artis Joyce - bass
Ron's BIO:
The first time I got the blues, I mean really got the blues, was in 1956. A friend and I got caught breaking into parking meters. I was eleven - he was twelve. Off we went to the juvenile center. The counselors in the center were young Afro-Americans in their twenties and they loved their music, like young dudes do. In '56 their music was Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Jimmy Reed. I fell in love with the music and it's been a part of my life since then. As I've gotten older I've tried to concentrate more on playing the Blues than living them." After teaching himself to play guitar, Ron met the late Yank Rachell, famous partner of Sleepy John Estes. Yank trained Ron on the finer points of Delta Blues, and they became life-long friends in the process.
The actor Peter Coyote helped Ron get his first gig in San Francisco at a neighborhood coffee shop. It wasn't long before Ron put together the Hacksaws and was tearing it up in clubs all over the Bay Area.
Since then, Ron has played every major festival in Northern California, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the San Francisco Blues Festival and the Marin County Blues Festival. Ron has also toured extensively in Europe playing major festivals in Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and Norway.
Ron has put out SEVEN albums which include "No Pretty Songs", "Bar Stool Blues", "I Got Tattooed", "Backdoor Man","Burnin", "Ron Hacker and the Hacksaws live in the Netherlands", "mr. Bad Boy, live solo show" and "My Songs", a superb 'best of' remastered album.
A description of Ron's deltablues, boogie and chicago blues: high energy, genuine, raw, intensive, great slide guitar songs, heartfelt vocals and a splendid Drummer and Bass player.
Ron Hacker played all famous Blues Festivals in the USA, Norway etc.
Ron Hacker - guitars, vocals
T Moran - drums
Artis Joyce - bass
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The 7th cd by Ron Hacker brings 13 songs of a great, genuine, fabulous Deltablues man.
Great guitar playing, lots of slide guitar on Ron's favorite guitar, a REGAL.
Remastered which brings even more pleasure in listening!
Ron Hacker & the Hacksaws played many well known Blues Festivals in the USA and in Europe too.
Buy Ron's CD's !
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Americana, Blues, Country, Acoustic Blues, Chicago Blues, Country Blues, Delta-based, Dirty Blues, Instrumental Blues and Mississippi
Americana, Blues, Country, Acoustic Blues, Chicago Blues, Country Blues, Delta-based, Dirty Blues, Instrumental Blues and Mississippi
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May 11th, 2008 marked the 1-year Anniversary of the posting of The Monkees Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Petition. Our goal is 100,000 signatures, because when their five albums were released for the first time on CD in 1986, they ALL went PLATINUM THAT DAY.
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We the fans, are leading the largest and oldest “Oldies” radio station in Southern California with our grass-roots effort by 7,243 signatures! As of this morning, through the world-wide effort of the fans, we have collected 15,931 online signatures + 137 from Peter Tork & Shoe Suede Blues concerts/events = 16,068 signatures. The largest & oldest "oldies" radio station in Southern California, has collected 8,825 signatures, for a combined total of 24,903.
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