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"I love to sit down and do my
thing, you know, because I love the blues," John Lee Hooker told
CNN
when he was interviewed in September, 2000. ON THE ROAD While
Kerouac and Cassady were buzzing around America's network of
traffic lanes, John Lee Hooker engineered a few inroads of his own. An original Mississippi Delta blues master who never anchored himself to 'in cement' structuring, Hooker built and opened doors. His customized performance style does not detach from the past.- He draws inspiration up through the inner chamber of his Southern roots. His chords and patterning style are unique in this manner. It's one reason why psychic- ally connected musicians of the 60s-70s embraced Hooker's down home wisdom so readily.
Hooker loved to bend sound the way some people endeavor
to bend spoons. His trademark songs carry an astonishing jolt, accompanied by a curi-ous state of conscious-ness. JLH directly or indirectly revitalized EM systems of physical temples within the range of his music. He is a bluesman in the company of poets, songwriters, and philosophers that include King David, Orpheus, and Pythagoras. Many are accredited as 'new age healers,' and 'instant healers'. Harps have a unique, legendary-time-less stature all their own, don't they?
Naturally, the ability to bend sound,
said to be both refreshing and hyp-notic by his fans, was John Lee
Hooker has a 3 Destiny Path. Others with the 3 Destiny Path
include: Alice Bailey,
Rosemary
Clooney,
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John Lee Hooker’s exciting, regal ‘alpha’ star, Regulus, entertained his sizzlin' solar destiny from the day of his birth. Officially this event is reckoned as August 22, 1917. The place, in the heartland of rich blues-loam, is itself a legend, Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker’s Leo Sun, exactly conjunct Regulus within a degree of perfect, predicted highly acclaimed contributions to innovative blues and traditional American music, as well as the music synonymous with his name, ‘boogie.’ Hooker’s hard working repertoire enchants listeners with smooth blended original standards, including "Boogie Chillen," his first single in 1948. Although Hooker kept pace with changing times during his career, he remained flexible and vigilant simultaneously, earning the respect of musicians coming up in the industry. "John Lee Hooker is unique in that he is an ambassador from another time," Charles Shaar Murray says in an interview. "His style is so archaic and so firmly rooted that he fulfilled this function almost from the onset of his career. And he's a speaker for eternal verities of the human condition."
Hooker continually refined and polished augmented
work, addressing his established phrases as subtle and encompassing designs, much
like the cross section of a nautilus shell. His stepfather Will Moore
initially introduced him to the guitar. For decades, Hooker remained an established ambassador for a unique American genre, reminiscent of the ol’ Mississippi mud and sharecroppers in the South. But his foot stompin’ beat keeps people stoking. Once on the movers-and-shakers map in 1948, John Lee Hooker acquired his most familiar foundational social title, ‘father of the boogie.’ Secret source of Hooker’s fine sensibilities and incredible style? JLH dug into the essential, elemental powers realized through humble beginnings. His star chart aptly categorizes these wisdom perceptions as an impressive grouping of heavenly bodies active within the constellation Virgo. Associated with measured units and time, healing, initiation, theurgy*, and (Sting’s ‘lithium’) sunset, Virgo is linked with rewards at the end of the day and harvest.
The world was his school. At a pivotal moment, Hooker moved to Memphis
and took a day job so he could play music at night. Hooker could manage the translation of soul rhythms into musical phrase and time, a potential gift referenced in his star chart under headings: o Sun and Regulus @ 28 Leo 40 conjunct Apollo @ 29 Leo In star chart terms, fame would find John Lee Hooker regardless of terrestrial locale, and guarantee his name a place among the biggest and brightest in the world of music. In 1997, John Lee received two Grammy Awards for his latest studio release, DON'T LOOK BACK. The first Grammy was for Best Traditional Blues Album and the second for his duet with Van Morrison. [right column for more] o Poseidon @ 23 Virgo conjunct Mercury and Athena together @ 26 Virgo treats Hooker's solar aspect with charming luster. The fame intimated by Leo is carried on by virtue of the next zodiacal sign Virgo, The Virgin. As an example of intellectual word-stamp links, Hooker's classic 1999 compilation, THE BEST OF FRIENDS on Virgin / Pointblank, celebrates his 50th recording year. The album features performances with John Lee and many of his
friends including Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana,
Robert
Cray, Ben Harper, Los Lobos,
Charlie
Musselwhite, Jimmie Vaughan and more.
Bonnie Raitt MySpace URL: myspace.com/bonnieraitt49
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: "...His foot-stomping boogie was adapted and amplified in the Sixties and Seventies by a great number of rock and roll artists, including the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Canned Heat, John Mayall, Ten Years After, Foghat, ZZ Top and George Thorogood. …. Over the decades, he has proven to be a survivor. When interest in electric blues began cooling off, Hooker found a niche for himself on the coffeehouse circuit during the acoustic folk-music boom of the late Fifties and early Sixties. More recently, his career has enjoyed a sustained resurgence that included a Grammy award for his 1989 album The Healer."
"He is one of a kind.
One
note of John Lee Hooker MySpace URL for John Lee Hooker: http://www.myspace.com/johnleehookerblueslegend
MySpace
URL:
Archie Lee Hooker http://www.myspace.com/archieleehooker
MySpace URL for BB King:
http://www.myspace.com/bbkingmyspace
John Lee Hooker - 1997 Progressed Star Chart o p Sun 17 Scorpio conjunct p Ceres 13 Scorpio; also wide
conjunction with p Mercury 21 Scorpio; Pallas Athena in his star chart
for the double Grammy win @ 2 Scorpio o p Mars [@ 4 Virgo] conjunct Apollo and Regulus o p Venus conjunct N. Node @ 3 Capricorn '40 [Astrology note~
crossing the t's and dotting the ayes
* Ceres (Virgo) would oversee festivals
and rites. She presided at competitions for poets and in dramatic
contests, as well as plays for initiation of the general public.
Two kinds of plays for greater and the lesser spiritual
mysteries were treated as national events. Neoplatonists following Julianus (1st century
B.C.) conceived of theurgy as acting on God or in a godly fashion, which
meant raising the being to the level of the higher genius temporarily
and having an epiphany of awareness.
** Later on, those figures advance into power
arenas where they are evaluated on the basis of their point of origin.
Today, our fictional heroes -
Bilbo and Frodo Baggins - and
our newfound transmediums
Neo (Mr.
Andersen), Morpheus, and Trinity - or even boy wizard, Harry Potter
- all have one
thing in common. They were not born in grand & golden palatial surroundings,
and they still expect to access information/knowledge
as though they hail from opulent early influences. It’s called ‘Street
Smart’ when you’re from the South. The use of alternate jackets (Aragorn
as the ranger Strider) does not necessarily involve an alter-ego (Clark
Kent & Superman, Diana Prince & Wonder Woman, etc.) Hooker estimated he
had recorded over a hundred albums under different names... not to be
confused with "Masked and Anonymous."
Sun
in Scorpio ~ Bonnie Raitt
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