{"id":4894,"date":"2013-01-23T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wordpress\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2013-01-23T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T11:00:29","slug":"talkin-blues-with-john-lee-hooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/talkin-blues-with-john-lee-hooker\/","title":{"rendered":"Talkin’ Blues With John Lee Hooker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Lee Hooker was one of the great blues men that helped spread the blues to generations to come. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John Lee Hooker turned a lot of heads when he came out with one of his number one hit songs, “Boom! Boom!” But there are a lot of other recordings he made, primarily solo recordings, that helped define his style of “Talkin’ Blues.” If you listen to enough of Hooker’s recordings, you start to realize that there isn’t a defined beat or tempo to his music. Hooker became famous for this style of blues playing. One of the videos I found to share with you features a performance from Hooker with Bonnie Raitt, and it’s fun to hear him play with a band because you can even hear that the band isn’t exactly sure of where Hooker is going in the song. It’s just one of the unique characteristics that made John Lee Hooker unique and captivating. I hope you enjoy these few performances from John Lee Hooker as much as I did!<\/p>\n

I’ll start out with one of Hooker’s biggest hit songs, “Boom! Boom!” One of the things I found most interesting about the video is all the characters dancing along to the music in the audience. Check it out at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wSnQ0bdHW0s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The next video performance is that one that I mentioned above with guest star Bonnie Raitt. Hear John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, and the band play some killer blues at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rT-FoZt95D4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lastly, another one of Hooker’s hit songs is “Hobo Blues.” Can you tell that the structure of the song is pretty loose? Another great example of Hooker’s unique style. Hear his solo performance of the song at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zYrVwGxlcFA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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John Lee Hooker was one of the great blues men that helped spread the blues to generations to come. He and his music is greatly respected and will be missed. Hopefully we can all take a few minutes and listen to one of the greats.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Griff<\/p>\n

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John Lee Hooker turned a lot of heads when he came out with one of his number one hit songs, “Boom! Boom!” But there are a lot of other recordings he made, primarily solo recordings, that helped define his style of “Talkin’ Blues.” If you listen to enough of Hooker’s recordings, you start to realize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}