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May 15, 1998

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The Best Of Friends

For half a century, the much-recorded bluesman John Lee Hooker has cut music so primal, it blurs into itself – his albums often seem interchangeable, his great signature songs recorded to the nth. He defeats this tendency with The Best of Friends, a compilation on which such admiring colleagues...

1998 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Blues musician John Lee Hooker helped define the post-World War II electric blues with his one-chord boogie compositions and his rhythmic electric guitar work. His deep voice was inimitable. Historically, he was one of the great links between the blues and rock & roll.

Hooker was one of 11 children. He sang at church in Clarksdale, Mississippi. His first musical instrument was an inner tube...

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