“Actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street, and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work.” – Garth Hudson to Martin Scorsese in The Last Waltz

John Lee Hooker was born in (about) 1917 in the extremely tiny, rural town of Tutwiler, Mississippi — coincidentally the very same town where W.C. Handy first heard & documented a man singing what he called “the blues” in 1903.

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