It took me almost a year, but I finally finished Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century, a very dense biography of my favourite bluesman.
I wish I had taken the opportunity to see him when I was in Montreal in the 2000, but I couldn't afford the price of admission. And on this the tenth anniversary of his death, that regret is more so.
It is a very good book, painting a complex picture of a remarkable musician and stellar man. Charting his entire career from the 40's through the dark times in the 70's and 80's to his rediscovery in the 90's, it was a remarkable story.
Boom, Boom, Boom, indeed.
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