Sam Phillips of Sun Records fame had an ear for musicians who stood out. He liked artists who were different, and he recognized the earth-shaking potential of John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen,'" an ...

Deluxe 4-CD Set Represents A Half Century Of Blues And Boogie Includes Performances with Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, Van Morrison, Ry Cooder, Jimmie Vaughan, Charles Brown ...

In 1946 he began working with records. At the time of encountering Hooker, Besman co-owned Sensation Records. Its early, pre-Hooker, signings included The Todd Rhodes Orchestra, Lord Nelson and his ...

The agreement covers the entire publishing catalog of Hooker, who died on June 21, 2001, including song “Boom Boom,” “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,” and “Boogie Chillen’,” Hooker’s recorded and ...

John Lee Hooker, "King of the Boogie" (Craft/Concord-5 discs). It starts with "Boogie Chillen'" from 1948, just a man and his guitar, Mississippi Delta style. It ends, literally 50 years later, with ...

John Lee Hooker was working as a janitor in Detroit when he released his first hit single “Boogie Chillen” in 1948. The rest is history. That history is being celebrated at this year's Detroit Music ...

If there were a way to patent a vibe, John Lee Hooker would have died a billionaire. His invention -- the blues boogie, slowed to a lurid crawl -- became part of pop's hard-wiring, a beat and mood ...

Detroit’s dean of the blues is set to be honored with a special summer tribute, including a posthumous key to the city. The late bluesman John Lee Hooker will be celebrated by local and visiting ...

In the decade before his death last June, John Lee Hooker’s vast catalog of electric blues and signature boogies was rerecorded, redone and covered by countless contemporaries. While those albums won ...

The Song That Changed My Life is a segment that gives us the chance to talk with some of our favorite artists about the music that made them who they are today. This time around, we're joined by ...

A reissue of John Lee Hooker’s popular comeback album, The Healer, has been scheduled for reissue on new 180-gram vinyl and CD. The 1989 work, which has been out of print for more than a decade, is ...