Boogie Man The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century

by Murray, Charles Shaar

• ISBN13: 9780312270063
• ISBN10: 0312270062
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-18
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Intro	ix
They Don't Give This Old Boy Nothin'	1	(13)
Bluebird, Bluebird, Take a Letter Down South for Me	14	(34)
The Real Folk Blues?	48	(26)
Frisco Blues	74	(16)
When I First Come to Town, People	90	(33)
``Boogie Chillen'' Came Out Burnin'	123	(28)
Ghostses on the Highway	151	(36)
Time Is Marchin' On	187	(33)
Folk Boom...	220	(33)
Blues Boom	253	(37)
Motor City Is Burning	290	(46)
Interlude--Dark Room	336	(39)
Into the Mythic	375	(57)
Hey, You Just Gotta Make the Change: Iron John and the Healing Game	432	(42)
Afterword: Saharan Boogie	474	(3)
Don't Look Back: John Lee Hooker 1917--2001	477	(5)
Acknowledgments: Thank You, Fellas	482	(4)
Appendix: Nuthin' But the Best 'n' Later for the Garbage	486	(7)
Index	493

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