Spinning the Blues with John Lee Hooker

Our 1992 Record Listening Party

           On assignment for Blues Revue Quarterly, I journeyed to John Lee Hooker’s home in Redwood City, California, on December 29, 1992. The cover story was to be entitled “Spinning the Blues with John Lee Hooker.” I brought along a stack of records that included the earliest 78s made by T-Bone Walker and B.B. King, as well as several other prewar a…