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John Lee Hooker: Boom Boom (Pointblank/Charisma) ***½

John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 29 April 1993

JOHN LEE HOOKER is the last ofthe classic Mississippi Delta blues guitarists, the unaccompanied bards who could generate more energy sitting on a low stool and playing an acoustic than most rock bands can summon up going full tilt.

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