Ronnie "The Hawk" Hawkins (Paperback)

Ronnie Hawkins, one of the undisputed granddaddies of rock and roll, is a larger-than-life storyteller. To his umpteen fans-some as renowned as Bob Dylan, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kris Kristofferson, and Jeff Healy, to name but a few-he is the best thing to happen to popular music. Hawkins has been playing music for more than sixty years and has influenced some of the most prominent and respected musicians in rock and roll today. His proteges have included Robbie Robertson, Burton Cummings, Larry Gowan, Levon Helm, and other members of The Band, Robbie Lane and the Disciples, and Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band. John Lennon even christened Hawkins "Sir Ronnie."??
Hawkins has lead a life of rock and roll decadence and reveled in every minute of it. He has played for Bill Clinton, Lech Walesa, and every Canadian prime minister since John Diefenbaker. A former hot rod racer and sometime actor, Ronnie Hawkins is one of the funniest, most interesting, and striking figures in music today.??
Ronnie Hawkins was born in Arkansas in 1935 and moved to Canada two decades later. He released his first album, Ronnie Hawkins, in 1959, his most recent in 2005, and dozens more in between. His biggest hits include "Forty Days" and "Mary Lou." Ronnie received a Juno Award in 1984 for Country Male Vocalist and the Walt Grealis Special Lifetime Achievement Award as the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) Industry Builder in 1996. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with his wife, Wanda.