The agreement covers the entire publishing catalog of Hooker, who died on June 21, 2001, including song “Boom Boom,” “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,” and “Boogie Chillen’,” Hooker’s recorded and ...

It is no small compliment to state that esteemed British journalist Charles Shaar Murray's liner notes here are fully complementary to John Lee Hooker's slightly less than an hour of playing and ...

In the decade before his death last June, John Lee Hooker’s vast catalog of electric blues and signature boogies was rerecorded, redone and covered by countless contemporaries. While those albums won ...

Detroit’s dean of the blues is set to be honored with a special summer tribute, including a posthumous key to the city. The late bluesman John Lee Hooker will be celebrated by local and visiting ...

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 at the Long Beach Blues Festival in 1997. Credit: Masahiro Sumori/ Wikimedia Commons John Lee Hooker was working as a janitor in Detroit when he released his first hit single “Boogie ...

John Lee Hooker was born on August 22, 1917, and passed away on June 21, 2001. We can’t miss any excuse to repost this classic footage of John Lee Hooker performing live on the Detroit Tube Works ...

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 reissue of John Lee Hooker’s popular comeback album, The Healer, has been scheduled for reissue on new 180-gram vinyl and CD. The 1989 work, which has been out of print for more than a decade, is ...

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 ...