Browsing: John Lee Hooker

Travel to the Apex Bar in Detroit, where John got the idea for the song!

Influential album features members of the legendary Funk Brothers and includes the original recording of Hooker’s iconic blues standard “Boom Boom”

Few artists have made such an explosive comeback as John Lee Hooker did when he released ‘The Healer’ in 1989.

18-track collection includes hits by foundational R&B and rock ’n’ roll artists including Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Lloyd Price, and Roy Milton

Known to music fans around the world as the “King of the Boogie,” John Lee Hooker endures as one of the true superstars of the blues genre, the ultimate beholder of cool

“Legacy was my first venture into my songs,” Zakiya told me. “People expect me to do hard core blues, but I’m not a hard core blues person.”

Of Hooker’s innumerable recordings, the Riverside session is perhaps the truest to his Mississippi roots.

The label and its founders refused to record Guy playing in the style of his live shows, referring to it as “noise,” and instead they attempted to make his sound more widely accessible.

“He gets down on his knee and takes Muddy’s hand off his knee and he holds Muddy’s hand in both of his and kisses the back of Muddy Waters’ hand.”

What’s Christmas without Christmas songs? So, we have our list of the 10 Best Christmas Songs, and we’ve checked it twice.