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John Lee Hooker and Charley Patton have very definitive songs about the 1927 flood
To be able to sit and talk with Willie Dixon after one of our shows, that’s something I won’t ever forget ... We gained a great amount of knowledge just from listening to him. And John Lee Hooker, he was one of the most memorable people to be around. Being in his presence was like being around blues royalty.
Here was a real Chicago bluesman who had played with Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, James Cotton and John Lee HookerMore quotes »
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TVD Live: Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite at the 9:30 Club, 5/02
the blues on his harmonica since the 1960s. He has played the blues with the best of them, but in a guest appearance on a John Lee Hooker album in 1997, he met Ben Harper. It may have taken 16 years to finally get these two together to do an album (2013’s from The Vinyl District Read more »
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Shorties (Alternate-Universe Takes on The Great Gatsby, Built To Spill Albums Ranked, and more)
a huge thing in blues music. You know, Charley Patton has the song 'High Water Everywhere.' John Lee Hooker has the song 'Tupelo.' It was a devastating flood, and it affected a lot of the local musicians and it went into their storytelling, went into their from largehearted boy Read more »
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With roots in vinyl, The Record Company takes the blues to a place in the past
out listening to records together for a year. The band mates all had a similar taste in music but it was when they heard John Lee Hooker's album with Canned Heat, Hooker in Heat, they decided that was the direction they wanted to go musically. "We wanted to from Palo Verde Valley Times Read more »
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Johnny Rivers follows musical roots to Ventura County blues fest
in the blues. When I was at the Whisky [in the mid-1960s], I was playing Fats Domino and Jimmy Reed songs. I was doing John Lee Hooker songs in 1964, long before George Thorogood came along. Who was doing John Lee Hooker in 1964?” His just-released live album, from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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Vernon’s Grownass Man Is Something To Shout About
Grownass Man is grittier than any of Vernon’s other work, and one could easily cite influences ranging everywhere from John Lee Hooker to The Black Keys. Some moments are raucous fun, like the punchy, upbeat “Mother, When?” Others, like “Heaven Knows,” trudge from The Wesleyan Argus Read more »
