J.B. Hutto & The Hawks has been played on NTS in shows including Carolina Soul, featured first on 22 August 2025. Songs played include Shy Voice.

J.B. Hutto & The Hawks was an American blues band led by singer and guitarist J.B. Hutto (1926 – 1983).

Hutto began playing on the streets of Chicago with percussionist Eddie 'Porkchop' Hines. After adding Joe Custom on second guitar, they started playing club gigs, and harmonica player George Mayweather joined after sitting in with the band. Hutto named his band The Hawks, after the wind that blows in Chicago. A recording session in 1954 resulted in the release of two singles on the Chance label and a second session later the same year, with the band supplemented by pianist Johnny Jones, produced a third.

Later in the 1950s, Hutto became disenchanted with music, and gave it up to work as a janitor in a funeral home after a woman broke his guitar over her husband's head one night. He returned to the music industry in the mid 1960s with a new musicians in the band; Herman Hassell on bass and Frank Kirkland on drums.

In the late 1970s, Hutto moved to Boston and recruited a new band and performed and recorded as J.B. Hutto & The New Hawks.

Hutto was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame two years after his death.