TULSA, Oklahoma – A special exhibit on blues legend John Lee Hooker is coming to the Woody Guthrie Center in the Arts District. Hooker is a member of the Blues and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has numerous Grammy awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award, but it may not be until you heard the opening to …
Los Angeles, CA – Craft Recordings is proud to reissue The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker, a showcase of traditional (folk/country) sound and one-chord blues all with John Lee Hooker’s smooth baritone vocals. Unaccompanied and playing acoustic instead of his usual amplified guitar, Hooker recorded a wonderfully varied set of deep Delta blues, moans, boogies, one field holler, and …
THE REMARKABLE WORK OF BLUES LEGEND JOHN LEE HOOKER WILL BE THE FOCUS OF THE NEWEST EXHIBIT OPENING IN MAY AT THE WOODY GUTHRIE CENTER. The exhibit, presented by the GRAMMY Museum® in conjunction with the John Lee Hooker Estate and Craft Recordings, highlights Hooker’s influential body of work, who influenced generations of musicians and expanded the scope of American …
John Lee Hooker’s recording career spanned more than 40 years — from his first hit record, “Boogie Chillen’”, which was recorded in a Detroit basement in 1948, to his Grammy Award-winning LP The Healer. Hooker is a total product of Detroit’s Black Bottom, the city’s African-American neighborhood. This podcast tracks his career, with help from John Lee Hooker’s son, John …
Available on March 22 from Legacy Recordings, The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition) contains 3CD’s featuring the original album and original single B-sides along with two bonus discs of rare and unreleased material, including two duets with John Lee Hooker, studio outtakes, duets with Carl Perkins, and Van’s set at the Montreux Jazz Festival. 24 of these tracks have never been …
The Michigan Department of Transportation has taken a major step to preserve the musical heritage of Detroit by purchasing the legendary United Sound Systems studio. The plan is to physically move the entire building to a new location. United Sound Systems plays an integral part in blues history for being the studio where John Lee Hooker cut his first #1 record, the …
Van Morrison’s latest album, The Prophet Speaks, his 40 th studio album, features new songs alongside his take on a series of blues, R&B and jazz covers, including a swinging version of John Lee Hooker’s, “Dimples.” Originally released in 1956 on Chicago’s legendary Vee-Jay label, “Dimples” is one of John Lee Hooker’s best-known tracks and an acknowledged blues classic. Morrison’s …
Third Man Records ecstatically presents the first re-issue of John Lee Hooker’s seminal and rare Detroit and Beyond recordings on vinyl since their initial release in 1973. These tracks have been heralded by many fans as his best overall collection of recordings as well as his some of his earliest, apart from the 6 recorded by Bernie Besman in 1961. …
Epiphone proudly presents the new Ltd. Ed. John Lee Hooker 100th Anniversary Zephyr Outfit honoring the “King Of The Boogie,” one of the most influential artists in American music. Featuring the classic Zephyr archtop powered by new Epiphone ProBucker™ Mini-Humbucker humbuckers, Wilkinson® Deluxe machine heads, a Premium Vintage Styled Hard Case, and a leather strap. The new Epiphone Ltd. Ed. John Lee Hooker …
