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A ballad for bluesman John Lee Hooker
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A ballad for bluesman John Lee Hooker
I'm gonna get "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" so I can pour a libation to blues man John Lee Hooker.
He died in his sleep at his home south of San Francisco on June 21. He was 83. His blues were down-home country blues, born, like him, in the Mississippi Delta. His voice was rich and unadorned, "full of ancient hurt," as one writer put it.
In the studio, if you were a producer, you had to keep up. Hooker only did one take, so any ...
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