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With John Lee Hooker's death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bluesmen. Acclaimed writer Charles Schaar Murray's Boogie Man is the authorized and authoritative biography of this musician whose extraordinary career spanned over fifty years and included over one-hundred albums and five Grammy Awards. Murray was given unparalleled access to Hooker, and lets him tell his own story in his own words, from life in the Deep South to San Francisco, from the 1948 blues anthem "Boogie Chillen" to the Grammy-winning album The Healer nearly a half-century later. Boogie Man is far more than merely a brilliant biography of one man; it also gives the story of the music that inspired him. "When I die," Hooker said, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die." Here is the book that does him and his music full justice.
- Sales Rank: #1538143 in Books
- Published on: 2002-03-18
- Released on: 2002-03-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 233.93" h x 27.00" w x 6.14" l, 1.64 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 512 pages
- ISBN13: 9780312270063
- Condition: New
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John Lee Hooker became an overnight sensation in the '80s after more than 40 years at his craft. The springboard for his "discovery" was the Grammy-winning album The Healer, which featured Bonnie Raitt and Carlos Santana among other younger musicians. This gambit, too, was not new, for Hooker had recorded Hooker 'n' Heat with Canned Heat in the late '60s--a truly seminal album. Hooker is one of the last surviving bluesmen with a direct lineage from the Delta blues tradition and for years was king of Detroit's blues scene. Murray's extensive bio goes all the way back to the beginning in a sprawling literary effort worthy of Hooker's lengthy career. Like many American blues artists, Hooker was revered by the early '60s English rockers, yet unlike Muddy Waters, widespread pop music interest in Hooker was slow to build. Nevertheless, Hooker's music is a national treasure; anybody who has ever boogied to George Thorogood's recording of Hooker's "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" or rocked out to ZZ Top's early recordings has heard the man's influence. Now they can read his life story in depth and celebrate Hooker and his music in a way that many of his contemporaries never lived to enjoy. Mike Tribby
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“(A) meticulously researched portrait...Hooker comes to life as a petulant, triumphant figure: complex and sometimes just unknowable, but as a genius for whom blues is as vital as a heartbeat.” ―Rolling Stone
“Surely the most exhaustive biography of any bluesman.” ―Chicago Tribune
About the Author
Charles Shaar Murray's previous book, Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Postwar Rock 'n' Roll Revolution, was called by Entertainment Weekly "the best book on Hendrix," and rode their A-list for over two months before winning the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. He lives in England.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Readable, Not Definitive--And I Have A Question About The Recording of BOOGIE CHILLEN ...
By reading man
This bio if worth reading, but I agree with some of the other reviewers that Murray includes too much "sociology" and personal commentary" after all, anyone reading a supposedly full-dress biography of John Lee Hooker is almost certainly knowledgeable about the background of the blues and a lot more.
There are some important matters that Murray leaves out. If, for example, you read the liner notes to the Body & Soul CD series which purports to include every recording, released or not, by John Lee, you'll get a much better picture of his recording sessions and how his less well-known stuff was distributed and received. If you can't afford the outrageously expensive Body & Soul series, there's a bargain 4-CD set with liner notes by Neil Slaven that includes much of the same information.
I have one bone to pick with Murray and, it appears, Bernie Besman. If you believe them (and Besman has more claim to speak since he was there) John Lee recorded SALLY MAE and BOOGIE CHILLEN with an acoustic guitar that was boosted by an unusual microphone placement (including one in the studio toilet feeding another one) to create an "electric" sound.
Now I've heard SALLY MAE and BOOGIE CHILLEN numberless times on various vinyl and CD releases, and I find it impossible to believe that John Lee isn't playing an electric guitar, possibly the flattop Kay with a pickup in the sound hole that he's holding in his first Modern publicity photo. Some of his early acetates from Joe Von Battle are clearly played with an acoustic, and certainly it's true that the backroom of Joe's record shop wasn't equipped to "electrify" the sound, but there are audible differences in the way John Lee sounds on acoustic compared with the first Besman sessions.
Does anyone who knows this music and has read Murray and Besman's explanations have the same problem that I do?
Besman was there, it's true, but when Murray interviewed him, he was an old man who'd suffered a stroke and Murray admits that his
"steel-trap" memory (Murray's phrase) sometimes fails Besman.
I think it did in this case--what do you think?
I applaud Murray's efforts to tell John Lee's story, but this is not the definitive biography by a long shot, and I hope someone else, more knowledgeable and a better writer, gives us a better bio.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
I loves me some John Lee Hooker and discovering this book was wonderful! Great bits of information broken up by this ...
By Brian Robertson
Oh, I loves me some John Lee Hooker and discovering this book was wonderful! Great bits of information broken up by this rather odd style of writing that seems, at time, to wander off in all directions. Still, given the subject it is worth the read.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
The intellectual's Blues
By John A. Gregorio
The blues is primal as this biography reminds us more than once. Scholar's have used more words than a presidential candidate in trying to explain the blues. This book succeeds when it directly discusses John Lee Hooker, his life and thus the blues. When it repeats Blues 101 information found in other books it fails. Many other works by Sam Charters, Pete Welding, Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and others do it much better. Read works by these authors if the history and etiology of the blues is what you need. But if you want to know more about Hooker... this is the place! The author admits when the information he has conflicts with the various sources, yet lets you know where the truth may be found. An Hooker's words are worth the price alone! Read and then listen to the Man to find a answer to the question "What is the Blues?"
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