John Lee Hooker appreciation thread

[The Dice Man]

"It don't take me no three days to record no album." JLH


JLH is someone Ive only recently got into, but man the dude plays style.

He was born in the Mississippi in 1917 and died in 2001. By 1948 he had his 1st number 1 hit in "Boogie Chillun," which sold over a million copies. Not too bad for a decade before Elvis kicked in.

13 Grammies says this man moved the blues and frankly, I cant get enough of his tunes at the moment.


Anyone else a John Lee Hooker fan?

 

[Derek Zoolander]

Dimples is one of my favourite songs of all time.

 

[The Dice Man]

Dimples is one of my favourite songs of all time.

Just about the last thing Id expect to hear from a user named Sporty Spice


I hear the beginnings of Rock and Roll right there in that song...

I love the way you walk

 

[Derek Zoolander]

Sporty Spice user name, Fergie from the BEP as an avatar, and a massive lover of the blues! It's fair to say my music tastes are pretty strange.

As a child, i remember my old man playing a John Lee Hooker album. Boom Boom was my obvious fav - that riff, that voice... It stopped me dead in my tracks.

A few years later, there was a music magazine/cd collection, you know, collect a new on every week, first issue $2.95. Week 1 was JLH, so i grabbed it with what little pocket money i had, and i swear i listened to that cd every day at least twice for the next 5 years! Man i loved that cd.

When i started buying my own cd's with some regularity, i went out and bought a best of JLH album, which i still have naturally, and of course adore. There are a few artists that can take me to a completely different place so to speak, and he's one of them.

Most kids today (i'm only 26, so there's a fair bit of irony in that statement) have no idea where music got it's roots from. The answer is of course, the blues. Johnson, BB, Hooker, Fats, etc etc... The list goes on. If i could give every kid on the planet a cd, it would be completely blues, and Dimples would be the first track.

As a wise man blues man once said at a concert a few years ago, The Blues Remain Forever
(for the record it was Matt Taylor of Chain)

 

[The Dice Man]

Awesome Sporty, and I know exactly what you're saying bout that voice. So raw, so deep, so ********ing penetrating and so uncomprimised..

The man was man.

His guitar goes alright too