~ Tupelo by John Lee Hooker
Views: 623368 |  |  |  |  | Great Blues Man, Great Blues Music. "John Lee Hooker was an influential American post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. From a musical family, he was a cousin of Earl Hooker. John was also inf ...More luenced by his stepfather, a local blues guitarist, who learned in Shreveport, Louisiana to play a droning, one-chord blues that was strikingly different from the Delta blues of the time. John developed a half-spoken style that was his trademark. Though, similar to the early Delta blues, his music was rhythmically free. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen" (1948) and "Boom Boom" (1962)" |
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~ The Doors & John Lee Hooker - Roadhouse Blues (Custom Video)
Views: 285295 |  |  |  |  | Another "ugly fan made" edition by me. Here's the Roadhouse Blues version from the Doors' tribute album "Stoned Immaculate". And this was the last song who recorded John Lee Hooker -that great blues man- before he passed away in 2001. This version is a ne ...More w recording of the song done in 2000 using a non-used JIm's vocal from the Morrison Hotel sessions. Credits for this version : Jim Morrison - vocals John Lee Hooker - vocals Ray Manzarek - piano, backing vocals Robbie Krieger - guitar, backing vocals John Densmore - backing vocals Flea - bass DJ Bonebrake - drums Juke Logan - harmonica Ralph Sall - backing vocals Gregg Arreguin - rhythm guitar INFO: en.wikipedia.org John Lee Hooker says in the book of the album: "It's a good song, it fits my groove pretty good. It's kinda like John Lee Hooker. I think they got a lot of influence from me. I think is so JOHN LEE HOOKER. I love The Doors and everything they did. It's too bad I didn't get to know them. They were pretty hot and they was a fine group and they did a good job on my song "Crawling King Snake", everybody like them incluiding me". |
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~ Etta James "At Last" performed by Beyonce in Cadillac Records
Views: 1268633 |  |  |  |  | Fans of musical dramas may experience some deja vu while watching "Cadillac Records"; the story is remarkably similar to one told in the middle of 2006's "Dreamgirls," in a montage set to "Steppin' to the Bad Side." There's the plucky upstart studio where ...More African-American musicians are pioneering new kinds of music. There's the driven record-label owner who's dispensing payola to deejays, trying to buy his way past institutionalized racism and cross over from the R&B ghetto to the white-dominated pop charts. There's the white group that steals a black musician's song and turns it into a hit single. There are lots of flashy new cars as symbols of success. And above all, there's the music, the motivator and the moneymaker, the one thing that heals all wounds—or at least in the case of the blues, expresses them. In "Dreamgirls," the sequence is a flashy, fictionalized amalgam of events from the Motown era. In "Cadillac Records," it's straight-up history. The film may also induce deja vu in longtime Chicago residents, because there's a chance they lived through these stories, when South Side brothers Leonard and Phil Chess relaunched Aristocrat as Chess Records and started releasing albums by the likes of Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry and many more. "Cadillac Records" shrugs off Phil Chess and the label's early years in order to focus on Leonard, on some of the label's biggest personalities ... |
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