Johnny Clark (Hans Klerken) was born January 23, 1968 and raised on the outside of Tegelen, a small town in the South-East of the Netherlands. In this agricultural area on the border with Germany, he and his family grew up in the 70’s and early 80’s. Together with the specific lifestyle in this part of Europe, the countryside and it’s culture define Johnny’s roots, something you can feel in his music. Although he didn’t sing or play the guitar until ’89, his love for music developed from an early age. He still recalls vivid images of the boy he was, standing at the fence surrounding the early editions of the Blues Rock Festival in his hometown, trying to catch as much as he could of what the bands were playing. Through the first performance of Rory Gallagher there in his hometown, he found out about Stevie R. Vaughan, Johnny Winter, Alan Haynes, and everybody else who plays what he loves: music with soul, music that captures the heartbeat of the earth itself, and music that reveals the freedom to be able to become what’s inside of you.

After a short time of guitar lessons, he started playing with friends. He did this for a couple of years, but it wasn’t until he formed Bullfrog Blues Machine in ‘94 that he really started to develop his own style through writing and performing his own songs. Johnny fronted Bullfrog Blues Machine for 13 years, saw many stages and highways, met many musicians, and always kept an open mind and a longing for anything that gave him the thrill of the real deal: the magic and energy of good live music.

Through the constant process of "becoming", as Bob Dylan once put it in a nice poetic way, Johnny was ready for a change in 2007. With the dedicated Outlaws behind him, the three of them are ready to rock the globe.