John Lee Hooker doesn't just sing the blues, and he doesn't just play the blues on his guitar. He is the blues. Along with a handful of American musicians, such as Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Bessie Smith and a few others, Hooker helped establish in the cultural imagination what being a blues performer is all about. When Hooker sings, it's with an ocean-deep voice that grumbles and growls and sometimes soothes; his guitar playing has a wise, twangy authority.
Hooker is fond of using collaborators to enliven his music--also, no doubt, to broaden his audience--and on his new album, Don't Look...
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