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Hank & Amos met in the back
of an old pick-up truck hauling a pair of prize-winning twin goats named Bell and Butch that they had both hitched a ride in after
a bohemian music festival in Western Kentucky.
They broke out their instruments and played all the way from Louisville to Lodi!
The truck was heading to Lodi
with the pair of prize-winning twin goats. After the ride the two took off
in different directions. A few months later they crossed paths again
one Sunday evening after church at a jam session in a big barn in Lorain County. They played a few
tunes out by a roaring fire and then took the stage together for the first
time ever under the name “Two
Hitchhiking Bohemian Goat Herders from Western Kentucky” but have
since shortened their name to just Hank
& Amos. That’s their story and their sticking to it!
With the southern born strum of an acoustic six string
guitar accompanied by the bluesy wailings of a lonesome harmonica, Hank & Amos will make you
laugh, make you cry and maybe make you want to throw tomatoes.
Through a variety of cover tunes and the original songs of Hank Mallery
they paint a nearly unbelievable cadre of stories that are the essence of
true Americana.
The songs slosh a shot of reality into a bottleful of imagination to tell
unique stories featuring a variety of characters loosely based upon
real-life experiences with a few names and details changed so as to avoid
things like prison, collection agencies, and former girlfriends. The people
and places they introduce you to feel oddly familiar and will have you
saying, “I knew a guy just like that once!” or “That near
about happened to me once!” When the singing’s done,
you’ll feel like you’ve gone on a great journey and met some
strange new friends along the way, that’s Hank & Amos.
Hank is Hank Mallery
from Mississippi.
He began to learn his trade in story-telling through songs and musicality
at the Tibbee Institute of Technology from Dr. Roy Logan and Professor
Charlie D. Nation. He has been on the road playing music and telling tales across
America
since the time he was seventeen.
Amos is Dennis Veverka
from Ohio.
He began learning to play the harmonica while plying his trade at sea and
continued on as a landlubber playing harmonica, juice harp and percussion
in a variety of bands.
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