Tonight.... John Lee Hooker documentary

[kiloran]

BBC4 21:00 John Lee Hooker: The Boogie Man https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004j8f

Two of my favourite performances:
With Carlos Santana, Paul Butterfield and Elvin Bishop at the Fillmore in a typical JLH boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRMzVMe18cA
I play this about 20 times a day!


Shake it Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnPnrtKn9fY
I only play this about 19 times a day

--kiloran (a John Lee Hooker fan if you haven't guessed)

[Slarti]

Finally got round to watching this, this afternoon, and very good it was

Amazing range of ace musicians in it.

Slarti

[kiloran]

Finally got round to watching this, this afternoon, and very good it was

Amazing range of ace musicians in it.

Slarti

He was good, wasn't he? Pity they didn't show more of his unique boogie style. Never heard anyone play the guitar quite like him. Not as proficient(?) as the likes of Clapton or BBK, but generated some brilliant foot-tapping rhythms. Certainly beats the likes of Take That, Beyonce and whoever!

--kiloran

[bungeejumper]

great stuff, kr, and thanks for the link. Will check it out at greater leisure, probably at high volume when the wife's out.

Another big John Lee Hooker fan here. I can't think of many bluesmen who were quite so influential. Was it really 30 years ago that the two 'guest albums' with Keith Richards and Johnny Winter and Carlos Santana and the incredible Robert Cray were recorded? Loved the original recordings, loved what the (relative) young'uns added to them. Legend.

BJ

[bungeejumper]

Late thanks, kiloran. I finally caught up with the programme this week, and it was every bit as fine as you said it was. Nice to see the interviews with Eric Burdon, too. It's remarkable how few American kids have ever realised that the blues would probably have sunk away into nothing in the 1960s if the white British bands (Stones, Animals, Yardbirds) hadn't got hold of it, turned up the volume, and reintroduced it to the segregation-era white American public that was all but ready to hand its youth music scene over to the bloody Beach Boys.

Would have liked to see more from Robert Cray, who I still rate more than many/most modern bluesmen. Keith Richards was on more than usually coherent form.

BJ