John Lee Hooker News

Blues group Ron Thompson and the Resistors are back in Madera for the summer with Sunday afternoon performances at the Tackle Box Too.

AMADOU AND MARIAM, THE BLIND HUSBANDand- wife pop act out of Mali, West Africa, have found a home in international rock and roll these days.

"Growing up in my family, the first blues I heard was John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and BB King.

If your musical tastes lean towards the blues and vintage R&B, then the Kinston library is the place to be this Sunday.

Johnnie Bassett may be a man of few words, but he has a mighty long list of credits.

Marquise Knox is a young blues artist who comes out of the St. Louis area. The guitar is his instrument of choice on which he says he can best express himself.

Nearly 3 years ago Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure's debut release appeared. It came out shortly after the death of his legendary guitar-playing father, Ali Farka Toure , known for his distinctive Malian Islamic roots in the desert meets John Lee Hooker style.

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington will bop into his shop Club Tattoo inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on July 4 for an autograph signing session.

Midnight Flyer is a weekly, two hour program featuring a wide variety of blues, interviews, biographies and stories about the blues.

The Library of Congress has announced this year's crop of 25 audio recordings that must be preserved...forever! The LOC saves recordings "that have been identified as cultural, artistic, and historical treasures to be preserved for future generations." The list this year includes the late Delta blues master, Mississippi native, and one-time ...

Grammy Award-winning bluesman John Lee Hooker had his first hit with the 1948 recording "Boogie Chillen." What do Winston Churchill, a Puerto Rican girl in New York City, and a Mississippi Delta bluesman have in common? Their voices have been designated as treasures of the American experience.

Lionel Young plays to a full house at Patrick's on the opening night of the Greeley Blues Jam Friday in downtown Greeley.

Most schooled music fans know James Montgomery and J. Geils as the names at the forefront of their respective bands since the '70s. The two longtime friends get down with the blues for the next show in the 2009 Summer Music Series at 8 p.m. Saturday at Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Falmouth Road .

George Thorogood and the Destroyers, the world's reigning bar band, will leave the Fox Theater doused in copious amounts of bourbon, scotch and beer after their performance on Thursday, June 11.

Record reviews by Kevin Bryan... John Lee Hooker,"Stomp Boogie" - This absorbing 3 CD set draws on recordings made by the brooding Mississippi born bluesman between 1948 and 1958, showcasing no less than 70 examples of his deeply idiosyncratic approach to music-making. Some classic Hooker performances are given an airing in the process, including ...

True rock survivors, the trio has been together 40 years. Like an electrocuted alligator crawling from a Montgomery marsh, ZZ Top emerged in 1970 from the '60s purple haze of psychedelic Farfisa organ riffs and Southern rock guitar screams, launching a lifelong commitment to the guitar boogie stomp inventions of artists like John Lee Hooker.

More than 40 years ago, Joe Cocker decided to stop calling his band Big Blues. "I had to own up to myself one day that I wasn't strictly a blues man," Cocker says from his hotel room in Milwaukee.

All the great blues artists have sung and played in Clarksdale's "juke joints" --the likes of Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Ike Turner, B.B. King and Otis Rush, to name just a few.

On a visit to Mississippi, Richard Grant relishes the chance to slow down and listen to people who love to talk.

SELMA -- Jazz isn't the only musical genre born in America, and a Selma native has been working hard to see that rhythm and blues isn't forgotten in an era of rap and hip-hop. When Chuck Strong isn't repairing cars out in Los An geles, he's flying to gigs around the country where he sings about lost loves, in fidelity, hard times, meager wages and ...