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From the Shadow of the Blues : My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption
John Lee Hooker Jr - Book - by J.L Hooker Jr and Julia Simon
(2025)
The remarkable, powerful story of the son of blues legend John Lee
HookerBorn in Detroit and exposed to the music world from an early age,
John Lee Hooker Jr. began singing as a featured attraction in his
father’s shows as a teenager. His father was a sharecropper’s son who
became known for hit songs like “Boogie Chillin,” “I’m in the Mood,” and
“Boom Boom,” and in 1972, he and his father performed live and recorded
an album in Soledad Prison.
Junior seemed to have a golden
ticket to a successful music career as a child, but trouble brewed as
his father’s marriage was in trouble and ripped apart the family. Drug
addiction and a series of related crimes, including as a con player,
landed Junior in and out of jails & prisons for several decades. An
early brush with the law led to a sentence at Synanon, the infamous drug
rehabilitation program turned religious cult.
Later arrests
resulted in time served in prisons including at Soledad, San Quentin,
and Avenal. Shot, stabbed, and convicted multiple times, Junior was at
his lowest point doing time at a Santa Rita jail, but it was at that
moment that he found the Lord. He emerged clean and sober and began a
successful career as a blues singer, earning two Grammy nominations as
well as the Bobby “Blue” Bland Lifetime Achievement Award.
He
eventually devoted himself fully to his faith. Now an ordained minister,
Reverend John Lee Hooker Jr. testifies, preaches, and performs gospel
music in prisons.
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