John Wort Hannam

In 13 years of being a working musician, John has released 5 albums, capturing a Juno nomination for Best Traditional/ Roots album and a Canadian Folk Music Award for Album of the Year.

“You’re dead a long time” chants Juno nominated John Wort Hannam’s mantra, “so you better get out there and make something beautiful.”

John Wort Hannam and the Blue Collars’ winsome, lonesome and then some style of acoustic roots reveals a woven textile of metaphor, phrasing, irony, and rhyme that reads with ease like well written prose.

He is one of the new torch-bearers of a vast songwriting tradition in the styles of  John Prine, Louden Wainwright III, and Steve Earle but proudly Canadian.

REVIEWS

"Songs that speak of the Prairies with the eloquence of a Sinclair Ross or a W.O. Mitchell, a Margaret Laurence or a Sharon Butala." —therecord.com

"People are starting to sit up and notice this singer-songwriter in his appearances from Montreal to Australia." —Edmonton Folk Festival

"John Wort Hannam looks like Billy Bob Thorton, hails from rural Alberta, and does roots-country like no one’s business." —Spill Magazine

"Like Tom Russell, Hannam’s narrative, achingly resilient writing approach hooks the listener immediately. The real deal." —Shindig UK