John Lee Hooker to be celebrated with Detroit blues festival
The July festivities will happen just down the road from the onetime Hastings Street district where Hooker plied his musical trade.
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The July festivities will happen just down the road from the onetime Hastings Street district where Hooker plied his musical trade.
Texas bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins (1912-1982) played, sang and lived by his own rules. When a sideman once asked him what key they were playing in, he proclaimed, “the key of Lightnin’ Hopkins!” A protégé of Blind Lemon Jefferson at age 8, he hit the road at a young age, playing juke joints and picnics throughout the South. A stint on a chain gang left some scars, but never slowed him down as he blazed a trail through the blues with his raw, inimitable guitar playing and voice. Like many Black bluesmen, he was “rediscovered” by British rockers and white college kids in the 1960s. ...
Cranking up the guitars for fans who love nothing more than a long, deep dive into sound.
Cranking up the guitars for fans who love nothing more than a long, deep dive into sound.
Let that boy boogie, cause it's in him, and it got to come out! - John Lee Hooker, Boogie Chillen (1948) He's beloved worldwide as the king of the endle...