Review: Van Morrison’s ‘The Prophet Speaks’ Mixes Standards and Fresh Originals
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On his fourth album in fourteen months, he proves he can write songs that are indistinguishable from the classics he covers.
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New John Lee Hooker Centennial Box Set Features Unreleased Music
Posted in: Music NewsFive-disc set chronicling career of legendary blues guitarist arrives in September
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The Best Of Friends
Posted in: Album ReviewsFor half a century, the much-recorded bluesman John Lee Hooker has cut music so primal, it […]
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Boom Boom
Posted in: Album ReviewsJohn Lee Hooker is the last of the classic Mississippi Delta blues guitarists, the unaccompanied bards […]
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Mr. Lucky
Posted in: Album ReviewsJohn Lee Hooker and Willie Dixon are the last of a generation of giants that plugged […]
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Variations On A Theme: Red House
Posted in: Album ReviewsJimi Hendrix was many things – monster rock sex god, guitar genius, acid spiritualist, master improviser. […]
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Rolling Stones Wrap Up U.S. Tour With Eric Clapton, Axl Rose, John Lee Hooker
Posted in: Music NewsClapton, other guests join band for cable-TV broadcast from Atlantic City
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The Healer
Posted in: Album ReviewsTake pure John Lee Hooker, add strong doses of Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Canned Heat, […]
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Endless Boogie [Beat Goes On]
Posted in: Album ReviewsThe black blues legends playing with the white up-and-comers. I guess Sonny Boy Williamson II started […]
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A Saucerful of Secrets
Posted in: Album ReviewsThe Pink Floyd were in the forefront of the self-consiously psychedelic rock movement in Britain as […]
