JOHN LEE HOOKER'S MOJO STILL WORKING AFTER 50 YEARS.(Entertainment)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: December 22, 1998 | Copyright information

The latest album from venerable bluesman John Lee Hooker boasts an all-star cast of collaborators: Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, Van Morrison.

But there's one notable absence from Hooker's wish list of friends on this celebration of his half-century in the music business.

``There ain't no way I could get him,'' Hooker says from his California home, his voice a barely audible croak. ``Stevie Ray. Stevie Ray Vaughan, he would be No. 1. I loved Stevie.

``It's just too bad,'' he says with the wisdom acquired from five decades of singing and playing the ...

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