A self described “Jersey Shore Ex-Pat turned West Texas Desert Rat”, for over 20 years, Hank Woji played in some of the Jersey Shore’s most dynamic and innovative bands as a bass player with Sonny Kenn & The Wild Ideas, Jah Love & The Survivors, Blue Gumbo and Kombo Zoom and later playing Brazilian percussion with M’Zume Carnaval.

In the Spring of 2001 Hank moved to Houston, TX, fell in with a bunch of great Texas songwriters, picked up his guitar again and found his new musical voice as a Singer Songwriter. 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 being “in the best tradition of the Texas troubadours like Guy Clarke, Townes Van Zandt and Butch Hancock” and “a rich combination of elements of folk, blues, R&B and country” 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”

Hank has released five self produced CDs: “Medallion” 2005; “American Dreams” 2008; “There Was A Time” 2010; “Holy Ghost Town” 2013 and “The Working Life” 2014.

Over the last 30 years Woji, and his bands, have shared the stage with such diverse artists as: The Radiators, Jimmy Cliff, Hot Tuna, The Smithereens, Jonathan Byrd, Jesse Dayton, David Massengill, Amy Speace, Ray Bonneville, Shake Russell, Dana Cooper, Darden Smith, Sara Hickman, Ken Gaines, Annie Gallup, Jimmy LaFavre, Annie Wenz, Emma’s Revolution, The Flying A’s, Matt Harlan, David Rovics, The Dust Devils, Michael Martin Murphey, Greg Klyma, Vini Lopez, Roy Schneider, Spook Handy, Kraig Kenning, Ronnie Elliott, The Wailers, Rebekah Pulley, Toots & the Maytals, The Drifters, Jon Bon Jovi, Room Full of Blues, Johnny Winter, Max Weinberg, Clarence Clemons, Johnny Johnson, John Hammond Jr., The Nighthawks, Gary P. Nunn, Freddy “Steady” Krc, Bob Livingston, Carolyne Mas, Mickey Hart, Grant Peeples, Spook Handy, Garry Tallent, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Kinky Friedman, Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger.

Hank is a proud union member of AFM Local 1000 and he tours nationally, performing regularly at festivals, coffeehouses, theaters, clubs and house concerts

He currently resides in Terlingua, TX.

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