Terry Hanck - Kickin' in the Country

For over 50 years, Terry Hanck has been treating us to his vibrant  saxophone tones, played over a shifting musical landscape covering  blues, R&B, and soul genres with equal dexterity. Nominated for  eight Blues Music Awards in the Blues Instrumentalist – Horn category,  he received the award on three occasions.

Blues  and soul music fans know that the soundtrack to early rock' n' roll ran  on three-minute instrumentals with sax in the lead, and was directly  related to 1950s and 1960s New Orleans R&B hits, along with that  deep-fried wildness that came from Memphis. With this history lesson in  mind, old school rock 'n' soul saxophonist and singer Terry Hanck makes  perfect sense. Clearly, Hanck has worshipped at the right Southern  altars-- those of such iconic R&B brothers as Fats Domino, Ray  Charles, B. B. King, Lee Allen and King Curtis. "I write songs that you  think you've heard for years," says the South Florida-based Hanck, who's  got suave movie-star looks and a good time presence that immutably  anchors the old-style R&B he adores.