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“John Lee Hooker’s guitar sound is unmistakably his. No one else can play like that. It’s raw. It’s intense. It’s everything I want to hear in a blues record.”
“Nobody know John Lee Hooker. They know as much about my cat as they know about me.”
The Laid Back Festival returns to Atlanta on Saturday, October 14th.
He played for what seemed like forever, until falling to his knees to catch his breath; it was amazing to watch.
This is not a party album, nor is it “easy” listening. Migration Blues hit us like a knock-out punch, right in the feels.
“Each song is like a story and I’m performing that story. That’s been forgotten over years because people over-analyze things.” – Van Morrison
“Blues was underground, you know? It was kind of hard to find.”
Each song on ‘Stompin’ Ground’ shows a slightly different side of his multifaceted musical personality.
Oliver was also one of the foremost blues historians of gospel and blues music in the modern era.
“I didn’t have a chance to know Wolf personally, but I had a chance to sit in with Muddy a couple of times.”