Johnny Hoy & The Bluefish

b. John Cravin Hoy, 10 January 1957, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. Hoy became a musician more by default than plan. He experienced a nomadic childhood with his parents' divorcing when he was 10. He ricocheted from coast to coast visiting his mother and father, hitchhiking and stowing-away on freight trains. Never graduating high-school, Hoy did a round of various labouring jobs, even passing a brief stint with a circus. Wherever he travelled, he always had a harmonica in his pocket, which he described as ‘just a kind of companion'. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his rootless, lonely ...