American musician John Lee Hooker (1917-2001) was an influential blues artist who played a role in the development of the genre from the late 1940s through the 1990s. Playing both electric and acoustic guitar, Hooker's distinctive vocal and...

The undisputed "King of the Boogie," John Lee Hooker has not only achieved commercial success—a rare feat among blues sing-ers—but he has maintained it for over five decades. His one-chord, droning grooves lend themselves,...

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an influential American post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. From a musical family, he was a cousin of Earl Hooker. John was...

The sinister and powerful blues of John Lee Hooker came as a welcome shock to British jazz listeners in the early Fifties, writes Steve Voce. The dark, iron-clad sound of the voice and the strange, plangent electric guitar (Hooker was never one to trouble...

Blues legend John Lee Hooker, who will celebrate his 75th birthday this August, has decided to hang up his travelin' shoes. Having spent much of his life doing little else, the boogie king will tour no more. And yet his new and aptly titled...

Depending on how you look at it, Marty Stuart is either a genius for saving all those cowboy boots, rhinestone suits and flashy string ties, or he's a pack rat with a taste for garish clothes.His collection of country music memorabilia reflects not only Stuart's...

Frank Lucas, at 77 years old and in a wheelchair, still has a small gang doting on him. Sons, publicists and friends swirl around Lucas in nearly perpetual commotion, fetching him everything from pills to a cooling fan. A recent visitor is directed kindly —...