Ron Hacker (born January 25, 1945, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

Hacker grew up without a family since the age of four, when his father died and his mother rejected him. Barely over ten, he was sent to a juvenile center for breaking into parking meters. In the 1960s he moved to the Bay Area and bought his first guitar for five dollars. Returning to his native Indianapolis in the early 1970s he met veteran bluesman Yank Rachell from whom he learned many tricks of guitar playing. Back in the Bay Area, Hacker started to play solo but the end of the 1970s he formed his band "The Hacksaws", a name which he has kept since. Hackers's first album No Pretty Songs was recorded in 1988.

Around 2005, Hacker befriended Tom Waits and was asked to be on his CD "Orphans", after reading Ron's book^{[citation needed]} White Trash Bluesman (ISBN: 1598990330) issued in 2007, Mr. Waits called Ron, "San Francisco's white trash Blues icon"

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Discography

• 1988 No Pretty Songs
• 1990 Barstool Blues
• 1995 I Got Tatooed
• 2000 Back Door Man
• 2003 Burnin'
• 2007 The Hacksaws Live in Holland, Bluesclub XXL, Wageningen
• 2008 Mr. Bad Boy (solo, live at Famous Dave's, Minneapolis, 12/31/06)

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External links

• Ron Hacker Site
• Interview

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