As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The Viking mentioned a month ago in an email that he liked the spontaneous song, and as I sit here I thought I would share a recommendation in what is the heart of me is blues. I love the blues. There is something in real blues that rewires the brain in the correct form of marijuana as a relaxant.
Who we are listening to is a 50 cent green tag CD I picked up this afternoon in
The Johnny Lee Hooker Collection made in Czechoslovakia.
For those who do not know Hooker, he was born in Mississippi, sojourned in the Memphis Blues Scene, worked in the Detroit auto industry, and by 1948 began recording music, which is on this CD in remastered tunes which TL says, "He was the black Johnny Cash".
Johnny Lee Hooker is the sound which transformed a generation, as Elvis Presley liberated this music, you can hear Hooker in Buddy Holly of Texas to the latter ZZ Top. The British bands from the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Beatles, to the legendary Led Zeppelin who again transformed blues into a hybrid, are all Johnny Lee Hooker's sound.
You can hear Hooker in Hank Williams Sr. as the heart of rock music is the blues. Every great rock hit, has lurking in the background a blues riff driving it. If you know what you are listening for, blues is there.
Blues are not in this synthesized gangsta shit or Bieber electronic ear suicide, and that is why none of these people endure or people can understand them across the generations. It is how tone deaf the modern generation is, and that is chiefly in those who torture others with that Country excrement which is a bastard baby mutant of a soulless tissue looking for an abortion.
The only thing I condemn this collection over is it does not include Money. Money is my favorite of all the Hooker songs, and in that, my favorite of all Hooker songs is not performed by Hooker, but by pop artist Ronnie Milsap. Milsap nails it perfectly.John Lee Hooker - Money - (Berry Gordy, Motown) R&B Mod.wmv ...
John Lee Hooker - Money - (Berry Gordy, Motown) R&B Mod
Ronnie Milsap- Money (That's What I Want) - YouTube
Ronnie Milsap Money (Thats What I Want) Lost In The Fifties Tonight.
If you want to know how much Hooker was pilfered from Shake, Holler and Run, you have heard in another version of Bill Haley and the Comets in Shake Rattle and Roll. Haley stole he intro and the lyrics. Time and again in what Hooker is performing on this collection I hear a group like ZZ Top using the same riff and Hooker received zero credit, much like this blog gets zero credit or monetary rewards from the established and the rich.
Hooker's exact style is repeated time and again by one of guitar music legends in Eric Clapton.
Everything you heard for the golden years of rock n roll, was Johnny Lee Hooker. That is when music was music, and the Memphis blues was affecting everything from Nashville, to London, to New York, to Detroit.
This ends with Wednesday Evening Blues, which is George Thorogood in Bad to the Bone, which is I'm a Woman by Peggy Lee.
Nuff Said
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