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Comment: Monday Book - Woke up with those mean old 20th-century blues Boogie Man: The adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century by Charles Shaar Murray (Viking, pounds 17.99)
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THE JOHN Lee Hooker story is, it seems, the triumph of age over
experience, and for that let all of us over the age of 25 rejoice.
The pop-cult obsession with youth, currently at its fiercest for a
decade, has no answer to this cumulative career story in which
repetition of the same riffs and songs ("Boogie Chillen", "Crawlin'
King Snake", "Boom Boom") produce a reputation, leading to the
reverence of juniors as well as peers. Following the Jon Landis film
Blues Brothers, which reasserted the...
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John Lee Hooker's 'Diamonds': A Rare Gem
The Washington Post
; John Lee Hooker melded the raw intimacy of acoustic Delta blues with the kinetic thrust of urban postwar electric blues as well as any musician who ever lived. With his stark, single-chord "boogie" guitar lines and his dark, deep-toned, talk-sung vocals, he created a sound that was immediately
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John Lee Hooker can still set the mood for that boogie thing
Chicago Sun-Times
; VALLEJO, Calif. This oil refinery town in the port of San Pablo, about a half-hour northeast of San Francisco, is an unusual place to tap the kerosene legend of boogie bluesman John Lee Hooker. The tidy streets of the hilly subdivision in which Hooker lives are lined with homes wearing bright
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Hooker boogies on // With roots firmly planted, those feet keep jumping
Chicago Sun-Times
; John Lee Hooker has perfected the art of the phone interview. After excusing himself to summon an unidentified friend for a cup of coffee, he returns and admits that he's lying in bed at the moment. He then launches into a discourse about his San Francisco Bay area investments. "I like to invest in
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JOHN LEE HOOKER'S MOJO STILL WORKING AFTER 50 YEARS.(Entertainment)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; 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
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Obituary: John Lee Hooker
The Independent - London
; The sinister and powerful blues of John Lee Hooker came as a welcome shock to British jazz listeners in the early Fifties, writes Steve Voce. The dark, iron-clad sound of the voice and the strange, plangent electric guitar (Hooker was never one to trouble himself about chords) were thrillingly
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