John Lee Hooker & Furry Lewis - Masters Of The Country Blues
Catalogue No: YAZDV519
Barcode: 016351051998
John Lee Hooker and Furry Lewis represent generational markers in the development of traditional blues in Memphis and Mississippi. Furry, born around the turn of the century,incorporated ragtime, ballads and other types of secular black music in his repertoire along with the blues. John Lee Hooker, born in 1917 in the heart of the Mississippi delta developeda unique approach that became one of the new building blocks of rock and roll, and as a blues survivor he enjoys new found popularity among younger generations of blues players.