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John Lee Hooker: "Eric Clapton, John Mayall and all those other people over in England made the blues a big thing. In the States, people didn't want to know"

Tuesday April 2, 2024. 05:07 PM , from Keyboard Magazine

Legendary bluesman on his latter-day fame

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