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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:41:43 -0400
From: Indiana
Subject: (no harp content) My flag is at half mast today

I don't normally cross post but this was on another list and I wanted to
share it.
I just got the sad news via telephone from my bud Calahan.

> From Charles on the voodoochile list:
>
>Sorry Folks I have a tear to shed..
>
>
> I'm so very sad to have heard that the music world has lost another
>Master.
>
>John Lee Hooker, 'The Hook', has passed away.. );
>
>http://www.expskypaint.addr.com/rip/hooker_red_house.mp3
>
>I 've no details as of yet, and I'll post something when I do find
>something..
>
>I have Jimi to thank for turning me onto the blues and to me Hooker
>was a great blues man, and even he, was unorthodox in his style and
>approach. And it's syncronistic to have heard about this today as it
>was just this very morning that I was looking for a quote by Hooker
>on Hendrix as I recall he had some great thoughts on Jimi..
>I did come across a REAL file with Hooker talking about Jimi
>but was unable to connect to it..
>Active for over 50 yrs, and has an amazingly large catalouge.
>Wally Heider- Recording engineer had worked with him on a few LPs.
>
>Again, I'm very sad to hear this.
>I really dig him! and I really wanted to meet this MAN!
>And now he's gone to keep playing in the 'big gig in the sky'.
>I'll miss this mans soul.
>
>Charles
>
>
>'With all her lip stick and powder..
>I don't need that kind of Woman' - Drug Store Woman
>
>Here's a write up on him if you want to know more about his life..
>Something I'm very glad for as he gave us some great tunes!
>http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bymf5zfoheh4k
>
>The Healer
>Hmm, hmm, hmm
>
>Blues a healer, all over the world
>Blues a healer, healer, all over the world, all over the world
>It healed me, it can heal you
>The blues can heal you, early one morning
>It can heal you
>The blues can heal you
>Yeah, yeah
>It healed me, healed me
>It healed me
>I was down
>I was down
>It healed me
>Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, yes it did, yes it did
>Look now
>My woman left me
>The blues healed me
>My woman left me, left me early one morning
>Hmm, hmm
>The blues healed me, it healed me, healed me
>Yeah, yeah!
>Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
>Hmm, have mercy
>The blues , the blues is a healer
>Blues, blues, is a healing healer
>it healed, healed, healed
>Heal!
>Heal, heal, heal!
>All over the world, all over the world
>It's a healer
>
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- --
Gary Warren

"I take my woman on the beach, fellas, and set down in the sand
and play." Muddy Waters (Deep Down In Florida)