Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century

With John Lee Hookers death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bluesmen. Acclaimed writer Charles Schaar Murrays Boogie Man is the authorized and authoritative biography of this musician whose extraordinary career spanned over fifty years and included over one-hundred albums and five Grammy Awards. Murray was given unparalleled access to Hooker and lets him tell his own story in his own words from life in the Deep South to San Francisco from the 1948 blues anthem Boogie Chillen to the Grammy-winning album The Healer nearly a half-century later. Boogie Man is far more than merely a brilliant biography of one man; it also gives the story of the music that inspired him. When I die Hooker said theyll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die. Here is the book that does him and his music full justice.