The following are career highlights during John Lee Hooker's years as a Rosebud Agency management client. (Mr. Hooker was a Rosebud Agency booking client from 1976 until his passing. Our management relationship with Mr. Hooker ran from 1989 until 2001.)
aired feature on John Lee including footage from San Francisco Blues Festival tribute in his honor. (11/95) The TBS special, featuring John Lee and taped in May 1995, aired several times nationally. Accompanied by Ry Cooder in a duet format and later with Hooker's Coast to Coast Blues Band, as well as John Hammond, Duke Robillard, Charlie Musselwhite, Taj Mahal and daughter Zakiya Hooker. A John Lee Hooker feature aired internationally on November 18, 1995. Appeared as one of two special guests on Bonnie Raitt's concert for national broadcast - Bonnie's father John Raitt was her only other guest. Taped November 1994, aired December 1994. A John Lee Hooker Dutch TV special aired on February 19, 1994. A John Lee Hooker documentary was produced by British TV and aired in England in the Fall of 1993. The special aired on the Bravo Channel in the U.S. several times in 1994 and repeated in 1995 and 1996. Performed "Chill Out" with Carlos Santana, April 1995. Performed two duets with John Hammond, October 1992. A special edition segment of "The Late Show" was produced with Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Ry Cooder, Johnnie Johnson, John Hammond, Charlie Musselwhite and Albert Collins performing with John Lee in January 1992 that aired March 1992. The special was nominated for a Cable ACE Award in the U.S. for its airing here on the A&E channel in January 1994. Performed "Think Twice Before You Go," November 1989. Performed "Baby Lee" with Robert Cray, January 1991. John Lee dueted with Bonnie Raitt in a taping for a national broadcast of a Roy Orbison memorial concert at the Universal Amphitheatre which also featured John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, B.B. King, a Byrds reunion, Chris Isaak, k.d. lang and many others. (2/90) Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Charlie Musselwhite, John Hammond and Carlos Santana joined John Lee onstage for a concert in San Francisco, taped for a cable TV special spotlighting John. (1/90) released in September 1990; features John Lee onstage with Van; recorded at The Beacon Theatre in New York in November of 1989. John Lee and Van Morrison are filmed duetting on a riverside in Louisiana for this special.
Charles Shaar Murray's acclaimed biography, eight years in the making. Published by Viking, 1999. Vintage Blues Guitar - Mel Bay Publications, 1996. For Guitar Tab - Wise Publications, 1994. The Healer - Hal Leonard, 1991. |