INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – John Lee Hooker Jr., son of the blues legend John Lee Hooker, has transformed his life from one of addiction and imprisonment to redemption and faith. After spending 30 years in ...
John Lee Hooker Jr., author of the new memoir "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption", joined us to share his triumphant story of a man who was lost but found his ...
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This 1964 performance sees the bluesman get a crowd on its feet with his “I’m Leaving.” He takes on the solid blues tune with effortless precision, thumbing away on his guitar and passionately wailing ...
A new animated video takes Detroit’s greatest bluesman back to the scene of a signature hit. The late John Lee Hooker’s “Boom Boom” arrived Friday to mark the 60 th anniversary reissue of his album ...
August has been son-of-a-legend month on the Fargo-Moorhead music scene. It kicked off a couple weeks ago with Shooter Jennings, the only child of country outlaw Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter. Then ...
If there were a way to patent a vibe, John Lee Hooker would have died a billionaire. His invention -- the blues boogie, slowed to a lurid crawl -- became part of pop's hard-wiring, a beat and mood ...
This article originally appeared in the April 1986 issue of SPIN. A battered motel room in Watts, the Glen-Dora Motor Lodge. When you come in, John Lee Hooker is standing at the stove in the cramped ...