Hank Woji

Singer/Songwriter

“Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams is a sprawling meditation on mythic American themes. Hank is a troubadour of the old school, warm hearted and precise.”
Anaïs Mitchell - Tony Award Winning Songwriter
“I’m in love with Hank’s new CD project, ‘Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams’. Great songs! Great performances! Great production values! What’s not to like? This is some of the REAL STUFF we ache for. My new traveling music.”
Keith Grimwood - Trout Fishing in America
“I can hear the influence of the raw highway, the rocks and sand, the endless landscape on Hank Woji’s new Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams, The album is a great soundtrack for a road trip traveling westward toward Marfa and Terlingua. You’ll be in the right mood when you get there.”
Bob Livingston - Lost Gonzo Compadres
“Anyone who loves traditional music will want to hear [Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams] by Woji. The writing feels effortlessly country, keeping to the themes laid out in the title. It’s comfortable, heart-warming Americana/country. When Woji steps into blues and even gospel, the album proves itself to not be one-note but a deep swim in the waters of Americana.”
– Maverick Magazine
“After listening to this album many times, I find it full of surprises. I believe that Hank Woji has presented a fantastic statement with a varied palette of Americana. A gem of a pair of CDs. Need I say it again: This is a hell of a project from an underrated singer-songwriter. It's in my top 10 of 2023”
Fred Schmale, Real Roots Café, Netherlands
"Hank Woji’s new album ‘Highways, Gamblers, Devils & Dreams’ offers 23 folk and country based Americana tracks. The highest quality of lyrics and music is guaranteed by this brilliant Texas based troubadour on his official 6th release as a solo performer.“
Valére Sampermans, Rootstime, Belgium
"What Hank Woji has done beyond just singing songs, is that he’s conceptualized the tales in some respects that were not originally related, but are now. It’s a painting, it’s a quilt, a mosaic of music and lyrics that have become in Hank’s hands a short story about what America should be.”
John Apice, Americana Highways, UK
“This is indeed a highly, and repeatably, listenable collection and while the past 5 albums have been mostly embraced by his West Texas audiences, this surely warrants a far more international profile."
Mike Davies, Fatea Magazine, UK

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August 14, 2023

SINGER-SONGWRITER HANK WOJI RELEASES BRAND-NEW HIGHWAYS, GAMBLERS, DEVILS AND DREAMS ON SEPTEMBER 1

Carefully chosen covers (Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Land of Hopes and Dreams,’ Woody Guthrie’s ‘I Ain’t Got No Home’) back Woji’s sharp songwriting

TERLINGUA, Texas – Hank Woji crafts personal narratives with equal measures soul (the opening “Don’t Look Back”) and sway (“Chasin’ My Headlights Again”). Evidence: Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams. The seamless new album deftly offers sharp songwriting fortified by Technicolor narratives (“I’m Gonna Hit the Number”). Community guides the journey (Townes Van Zandt’s “I’ll Be Here in the Morning,” featuring rapidly rising Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jaimee Harris). “I set out on this musical odyssey in August 2021 with a full tank of gas and a vision of what this record might be,” Woji explains. “Then spent the next eighteen months on the road, crisscrossing the country, recording in fifteen different studios across eight states and chasing down what ultimately ended up as a twenty-three track double album. I’m grateful for the magic and artistry old and new friends breathed into this project.”

The new album – due out September 1– features guest performances from Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Jaimee Harris, Bill Kirchen, Joel Guzman (Joe Ely, Paul Simon), David C. Johnson (Aaron Neville) and Radoslav Lorkovic (Odetta, Shawn Mullins) to name just a few. The new collection stretches the boundaries of Americana with intensely personal reflections on our life and times. The album title Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams pretty much reflects the common threads running through the songs.

Results already have turned heads. “Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams is a sprawling meditation on mythic American themes,” Tony award winning singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell says. “Hank is a warm-hearted and precise troubadour of the old school.” “I can hear the influence of the raw highway, the rocks and sand, the endless landscape on Hank Woji’s new Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams,” echoes legendary Lost Gonzo Compadres bassist Bob Livingston. “The album is a great soundtrack for a road trip traveling westward toward Marfa and Terlingua. You’ll be in the right mood when you get there.”

Woji’s originals – including co-writes with the late Texas bluesman Michael Durbin (“Man in a Cave”), Oklahoma-born songstress Susan Herndon (“Start Building Bridges”), and songwriter David Levine (the closing meditation “Peace Unto You”) – are alternately punchy and poignant and critical and cutting. The songs offer reflections on life, death, love, hope and dreams, all penned by a nomadic troubadour with a keen eye for history, politics and culture in an “unexpected world.” The sum total delivers a genre-bending musical odyssey along highways, back roads and dead-end streets. Listen closely. You’ll hear: Hank Woji’s Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams elegantly paints the soundscape of our uniquely American journey. “I’m in love with Hank’s new Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams,” says Keith Grimwood from Trout Fishing in America. “Great songs, performances and production values. What’s not to like? This is some of the real stuff we ache for. This is my new traveling music.”

www.hankwoji.com

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615.262.0883 kari@kariestrin.com

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For European Radio & Press/Interviews: Peter Holmstedt, Hemifrån, peter.holmstedt@telia.com

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“This is music with genuine fire in its belly and a message of hope at its core.…every track holds a passionate, albeit often dark, message and yet remains firmly optimistic…Woji is a guy worth catching and ‘The Working Life’ has considerable merit for lovers of traditional folk-roots-based music.”
Music News Nashvile, USA
“ ‘There Was A Time’ is a great example of Texan troubadouring. With Woji channelling the greats including Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and Woody Guthrie…this is a fine rootsy album…Anyone who digs acoustic Earle, John Prine or Butch Hancock will find much here to whet their whistle…”
Blabber ‘n’ Smoke, Scotland
“Sometimes you just need a bread-and-butter, honest-to-God country song. No tricks, no affectations, no superbly hidden self consciousness. Sometimes, you just need a song. For those times, Hank Woji is your man. ‘Holy Ghost Town’ is a solid example of today’s Americana…”
Adobe & Teardrops, USA

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