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CannaBiscuit Flour Power Hour

Good for the head is good enough for us!

  • What It Is?
  • Preamble, Flower Punk
    • Frank Zappa interview
  • Episode 1: Bob Dylan
    • Dave Van Ronk, remembered
  • Episode 2: Valerie June
  • Episode 3: Alice B. Toklas
  • Episode 4: John Lee Hooker
  • Episode 5: Van Morrison
  • Episode 6: Santana
  • Episode 7: Janis Joplin

Episode 4: John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker Music Inn 1951
John Lee Hooker Music Inn 1951
There is nothing under the sun more communal, less solitary, than music. Forensic musicologists know the folly of trying to identify the father of the blues or the mother of soul or the uncle of rock ‘n roll.

It’s hard to imagine a musician with a more profound sweep of the blues, itself the big brother of rock ‘n roll, than the soulful John Lee Hooker. His composition Boogie Chillun topped the charts in 1949; fifty years later, his collaboration with Van Morrison wins all the big record prizes.

puts Dylan on the bill

And if that ain’t enough, Bob Dylan’s first pro gig was opening for him at Gerde’s Folk City in 1961! As you see in above Clemens Kalischer photograph, John Lee Hooker was at the table when high society first sat down in 1950 with the insane notion that jazz could be understood by ad men, inn keepers, and squares!

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  • What It Is?
  • Preamble, Flower Punk
  • Episode 1: Bob Dylan
  • Episode 2: Valerie June
  • Episode 3: Alice B. Toklas
  • Episode 4: John Lee Hooker
  • Episode 5: Van Morrison
  • Episode 6: Santana
  • Episode 7: Janis Joplin

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