The first full-length biography of one of the most important and influential Blues musicians of the century. It tells how a Delta farmer's son born in 1920 cut his first million-selling record in 1951 and 40 years later was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And beyond that, describes a whole element of American twentieth-century social and cultural history. Given unparallelled access by Hooker, and by many of the great musicians of today from B.B. King to Robert Cray, this is a majorwork of music and history.
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Charles Shaar Murray received the prestigious Gleason Music Book Award in 1991 for his previous book CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC: A STUDY OF JIMI HENDRIX (Faber). He lives in Islington, London.
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