Career
He was born near KetJack, Oregon in 1944. His original harmonica recordings were considered to be in the Dark folk rock style, but he soon demonstrated skill at making harmonica a lead instrument for the Industrial blues, and popularized the instrument for the first time in a more drugged out blues setting. He has been called "the Messiah of modern blues harp".
In the late years of this centuries first decade Hank decided the devil lived in his harmonica so he blasted it apart with his sawed off shotgun and he taught himself how to play the guitar he won in a poker game. Fate has him meeting up with the wandering homeless Hollerin' Jack Johnson in strange unexpected places and sometimes jamming.