True bluesman; John Lee Hooker has been king of the one-chord, 12- bar blues for 50 years and, writes Barry Didcock, a new Best Of album cements his reputation

The Sunday Herald | February 25, 2001| | Copyright

IF you'd spent last Friday night in San Francisco's Great American Music Hall, you'd have seen and heard one of the 20th century's truly authentic voices.

No, I wasn't there either, but I can imagine him heaving his octogenarian frame into a straight-backed chair, setting his foot rocking and unleashing the mesmeric one-chord blues boogie that has rolled through the American psyche for more than 50 years now.

But as John Lee Hooker barrelled through his opening song - and if he wasn't entirely focused on remembering the words - he may have had time to reflect on a few things. Like how the ...

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