RIP John Lee Hooker

[calbert at tiac.net]

That's a pretty fine gloss to put on numbers like BOOM BOOM 
BOOM BOOM and that ditty about having his posse hold some guys 
head under water and watching the bubbles......

but the man will be missed...


love,
cfa
> 
> 
> Doug Millison wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/22/obituaries/22HOOK.html
> > 
> > And with his deep, implacable voice, he sang of lust and loneliness,
> > rage and despair in songs so bleak that they sometimes made him cry
> > behind his dark glasses. "No matter what anybody says, it all comes
> > down to the same thing," he once said. "A man and a woman, a broken
> > heart and a broken home."
> 
> A man that went down to the crossroads. 
> 
> I know you hate that mystic shit
> It's just another way of seeing
> The Sword of Damocles above your head
> 
> What a difference a War Makes.
>