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Davros · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:28 pm Post subject: ON THIS DAY - AUGUST 22ND

AUGUST 22ND - MUSICALLY SPEAKING:

Yes, true, it is your Moderator's Birthday but also it is the birthdaye of
the Late Great Mr John Lee Hooker.

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "I'm in the Mood" (1951) and "Boom Boom" (1962), the first two reaching R&B #1 in the Billboard charts.

All I can add is somebody once quoted .............
"Anybody who says 'All Men are created Equal - never saw John Lee Hooker in the Shower' !!!!"

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Davros (Dave)
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bong60 · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:52 am Post subject:

I think I'm glad that I am not going to go in history as the person that was known for being in the shower with him. Of course, I'm assuming it was a Male. Rolling Eyes

which probarly makes me an ass. Smile

All I can add is somebody once quoted .............
"Anybody who says 'All Men are created Equal - never saw John Lee Hooker in the Shower' !!!!"
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Bongo (Terry)