The passing of Fresno’s Jack Hannah, award-winning Western singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Sons of the San Joaquin, is the topic for this week’s opinion cartoon by SW Parra.
Hannah co-founded the Sons of the San Joaquin in 1987 with his brother and nephew. They traveled globally and put out more than a dozen albums and were known for their songs about the cowboy way of life. The band, and Hannah himself, won multiple Western music and songwriting awards.
Hannah played football and baseball at Fresno State and went on to pitch seven seasons in professional baseball with the Milwaukee Braves and California Angels organizations.