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 (Mr. Hooker was a Rosebud Agency booking client from 1976 until his passing. Our management relationship with Mr. Hooker ran from 1989 until 2001.)
John Lee Hooker just scored his first gold and silver records for The Best of Friends in Norway and Portugal respectively in the record's first six weeks of release.
John Lee Hooker's duet with Big Head Todd & The Monsters on Hooker's "Boom Boom" is featured in the Adam Sandler hit movie and soundtrack CD for "The Waterboy". "Boom Boom" was originally featured on Big Head Todd's latest CD, Beautiful World. An alternate earlier version of the song, featuring Jimmie Vaughan with John Lee, is available on Hooker's current CD, The Best of Friends.
Pops Staples, John Lee Hooker to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards Pops Staples has been named to receive The Lifetime Achievement Award from The Mississippi Arts Commission, in cooperation with the Governor's Office of Mississippi. The award will be presented by the governor and First Lady in March at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson. Past winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award include Morgan Freeman, Leontyne Price, Eudora Welty, Ethel Wright Mohamed, Margaret Walker Alexander and Shelby Foote. The Rhythm and Blues Foundation will honor John Lee Hooker with their 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award on February 25 at the foundation's annual gala at Sony Studios in Los Angeles, the day after the Grammy Awards.
The dedication will be part of a benefit festival to kick off the expansion and relocation of the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, 'The Home of the Blues'. John Lee Hooker Lane will run in front of the museum's new location, the old Illinois Central Railroad Freight Depot located on the railroad tracks that legends such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf once rode.
John Lee Hooker, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee in 1991, was honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a concert in his honor entitled "A 50th Anniversary Boogie". The sold out concert took place on October 30 at Stanford University. Those celebrating with John Lee included fellow artists and some of his best friends, including Charlie Musselwhite, John Hammond, Elvin Bishop, Eddie Kirkland, Johnnie Johnson, Pete Sears and John's daughter Zakiya Hooker. The Rock Hall's concert series began in 1996 and since has featured such artists as Aretha Franklin, The Band, Ray Manzarek of the Doors and Little Richard, to name a few.
John Lee Hooker's The Best of Friends just released John Lee Hooker's The Best of Friends is a celebration of his collaborations of the past decade. It also marks the anniversary of his first million selling hit, 'Boogie Chillen', exactly 50 years ago.
John Lee Hooker house fire Many may have heard about the fire that broke out in Mr. Hooker s Los Altos home in the news or other sources, but we wanted to update those who visit the site. John Lee Hooker's house sustained significant damage after a fire broke out in one of the bedrooms on Sunday, July 26. John Lee and his guitars were unharmed and he is carrying on with his schedule as usual. As John Lee put it "It's a shame so many things got burned but you can buy things and you can't buy life - everybody came out safe and that's what's important. These things happen".
John Lee Hooker's new CD, The Best Of Friends, now set for an October 20 John Lee Hooker's new CD, The Best of Friends, is now set for an October 20 release. The CD includes ten of the best tracks from his last five award winning CDs, as well as three new tracks featuring some very special friends. More details coming soon...
John Lee Hooker's 1st Canadian date in almost five years an advance sellout After performing as co-headliner with The Robert Cray Band July 11 at The Pier in Seattle, Hooker travels North to Canada for the first time in nearly five years. The July 13 date at The Rage in Vancouver sold out quickly as Hooker makes this rare appearance outside the United States. The Dirty Dozen is set to open the show. Hooker has gone into semi-retirement with regard to touring but you'll be hearing more from him soon. His newest CD, The Best of Friends, is set for release October 20. Watch for more details on that project soon.
John Lee Hooker was awarded The George & Ira Gershwin Award for Musical Achievement at UCLA on May 1. Mick Fleetwood made the presentation to Mr. Hooker, citing Hooker's massive influence on bands like the early Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton and more. The next night Mr. Hooker was honored in Oslo, Norway (he didn't attend the event) with a Panga Pamodzi Award for Musical Achievement.
Big Head Todd & The Monsters' version of the John Lee Hooker classic, "Boom Boom", featuring John Lee himself on vocals brings the song back to the charts once again. Originally a hit for John Lee and later a hit for The Animals, Hooker re-recorded the song in 1992 with Jimmie Vaughan for Hooker's album of the same name. The record was a hit in Europe where it was tied to a Lee Jeans campaign across the continent.
"Mama You Got A Daughter," which John Lee recorded for Vee Jay records in 1958, appears in the film, 'City Of Angels,' starring Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage. The song is also on the Warner Bros. soundtrack album, which contains new recordings by Peter Gabriel, Alanis Morrisette, and U2.
John Lee Hooker's Don't Look Back won the Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album then shocked viewers when the title track also won the Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals. The duet with Van Morrison, beat out competition including Barbra Streisand / Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand / Bryan Adams, Stevie Wonder / Babyface and Tony Bennett / Billie Holiday.
Rosebud's best year ever capped by six Grammy Nominations--John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, the late Luther Allison, Charlie Musselwhite and BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet score Grammy Nominations. The late Luther Allison was honored with a Grammy Nomination in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category for his Reckless CD. Allison passed away in August after being diagnosed with cancer while on tour in support of the CD. He was widely recognized as the fastest rising star in the blues world having swept the W.C. Handy Awards two years running and being featured on the covers of every major blues magazine. John Lee Hooker scored two Grammy Nominations for his current CD, Don't Look Back. The CD was nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album while his duet with Van Morrison on the title track earned a nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. BeauSoleil snared their eighth Grammy Nomination for Best Traditional Folk Album for their L'Amour Ou La Folie CD. Robert Cray kept his streak alive with his tenth Grammy Nomination, this time for Sweet Potato Pie and it's nomination as Best Contemporary Blues Album. Each of Robert's last eight projects has been nominated for a Grammy and he's won four to date. Charlie Musselwhite's latest, Rough News, proved to be good news after all, scoring him a nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album. Duke Robillard played guitar on two prominent Grammy nominated projects, R&B=Ruth Brown and Bob Dylan's Time Out Of Mind. |
John Lee Hooker scores silver and gold 
Big Head Todd & The Monsters with John Lee Hooker bring "Boom Boom" back to life again
