Studebaker John & the Hawks

b. John Grimaldi, 5 November 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA. We were young in Chicago, Grimaldi’s dad played acoustic guitar and he noticed live shows by several mentioned blues experts including Howlin’ Wolf, J.B. Hutto, Small Walter, Muddy Waters and Sonny Boy Williamson. He trained himself to try out harmonica and acoustic guitar, building his design on these performers but swiftly creating a unique manner. Within the 70s he created a music group and used his stage name in mention of a valued car he possessed, a 1963 Studebaker Metallic Hawk. In the mean time, Grimaldi maintained work on building sites, playing the blues during the night in Chicago’s night clubs. Grimaldi documented in the past due 70s with Robert ‘Mojo’ Elem, Mojo Boogie (1978), and his own-name debut arrived in the middle-80s. Nevertheless, the album had not been released in america until the middle-90s. In the mean time, Grimaldi had guaranteed a recording agreement with Blind Pig Information that shortly brought his hard-edged no-nonsense playing to some wider viewers. In 2004 he produced his mainstream single debut, launching Between Lifestyle & Death for the Avanti label (a youthful acoustic discharge was only obtainable from the musician’s own internet site). Grimaldi’s glide guitar playing can be powerful and thrilling as can be his harmonica function. His singing, without as essential as his instrumental function can be interesting, particularly when he performs his very own compositions. These tracks, while couched in traditional type are modern in articles and attitude.