Home » Search Center » Results: John Lee Hooker

Results for "John Lee Hooker"

994

Article: Interview

Barney McAll: One to Watch

by AAJ Staff
March 6, 2009

This interview was first published in 2001. All About Jazz: First, if you don't mind, tell me some other biographical details (where did you study?) Barney McAll: I was born in Melbourne Australia. I started playing piano at seven years old. My older brother John, was very influential on me ...

Album

Boom Boom

By John Lee Hooker

Label: Shout! Factory
Released: 2006

Album

Blues Is The Healer

By John Lee Hooker

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2005

1,440

Article: From Far and Wide

A Brief History of the Blues

by Ed Kopp
August 16, 2005

When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues. While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond ...

Album

Live at Sugar Hill, Volume 2

By John Lee Hooker

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: You Torture My Soul/ Bottle Up and Go/ Come Back Baby (Let

Album

Live At Newport

By John Lee Hooker

Label: Vanguard Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Introduction by George Wein; Hobo Blues; Maudie; introduction by John Lee Hooker; I Can't Quit You, Baby; Stop Now, Baby; Tupelo; Sometimes You Make Me Feel So Bad; Bus Station Blues; Introduction by John Lee Hooker; Let's Make It; Great Fire Of Natchez; Boom Boom; Your're Gonna Need Another Favor; Introduction by John Lee Hooker; Hobo Blues; Boom Boom

209

Article: Album Review

John Lee Hooker: Live at Sugar Hill, Volume 2

Read "Live at Sugar Hill, Volume 2" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor
December 4, 2002

What gives a man justification to sing the blues? There have never been a staid set of credentials for such a pursuit, but if any one man had the proper pedigree custom plugged into his persona, it was John Lee Hooker. His voice could sway from gravel-grained bark to plaintive croon amidst lyrics of the most ...

124

Article: Album Review

John Lee Hooker: Live At Newport

Read "Live At Newport" reviewed by Derek W. Brown

by Derek W. Brown
April 18, 2002

From his first R & B hit, 1948's “Boogie Chillun," a hypnotic one-chord ostinato, John Lee Hooker would forever be known as King Of The Boogie. Although he was accompanied in the studio by an occasional piano, harmonica or Eddie Kirkland's empathetic second guitar, John Lee Hooker's improvisatory style and lack of apparent structural sense marked ...

Album