"John Lee Hooker is one of the giants of post-World War II blues, on a par with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Lightnin' Hopkins. Known as the father of the boogie, an incessant one-chord exercise in blues intensity and undying rhythm, Hooker's sound is also a study in deep blues. From his guitar come shadowy tones, open tunings, feverish note clusters, and that familiar chugging rhythm that has been his blues signature-all of which hark back to the music' s formative years."
"Baby Please Dont' Go" has scored
channels so deep in my skull it plays
itself in an endless loop when my word
mind goes on hold & I gets down to
working. I saw Hooker at a dive in Durham,
North Carolina in 1977 & his good friend
the Reverend Gary Davis came up on
stage & sang "Death don't have no
Mercy" & that day I knew what people
mean when they say "makes the blood
run cold..." Hooker once bolted a
speaker to a toilet to get a more natural
reverb sound in the studio.
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- dave 6-23-2001 2:37 am
"Baby Please Dont' Go" has scored
channels so deep in my skull it plays
itself in an endless loop when my word
mind goes on hold & I gets down to
working. I saw Hooker at a dive in Durham,
North Carolina in 1977 & his good friend
the Reverend Gary Davis came up on
stage & sang "Death don't have no
Mercy" & that day I knew what people
mean when they say "makes the blood
run cold..." Hooker once bolted a
speaker to a toilet to get a more natural
reverb sound in the studio.
- frank 6-23-2001 8:34 am [add a comment]