Award winning Boogie Chillen with John Lee Hooker's Hollywood Walk of Fame "Award-Winning Boogie Chillen 1948 Expands to Key Markets, Honoring John Lee Hooker's Blues Legacy in Detroit, Memphis & ...

Hooker was another transplant to Detroit. Born in Mississippi, he had lived in Memphis and arrived in Detroit in 1943. He played live, but earned a wage at the Ford factory and then at a steel mill.

Wartime Detroit must have been one helluva place — everybody haulin’ ass for the Man. The Big Three had black folks and white folks traveling to the Motor City with sky-high expectations (working for ...

John Lee Hooker was the most adaptable of bluesmen. Working within a genre that was often bound by a distinct set of scales and progressions, Hooker’s natural feel and spontaneity allowed him to move ...