Stranger With Friction: John Lee Hooker

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Thursday, November 3, 2016

KING VULTURE'S SOUND ATTACK 11.3.16; BLOODY ROOTS MUSIC

Something I love is a good music biography or music history book. A rock bio is often my refuge when reading fiction is starting to corrupt my own writing style. I could give you a massive list of highly recommended biographies, but there are three books I'm high lighting today, which inspired this Sound Attack; Greil Marcus's MYSTERY TRAIN and INVISIBLE REPUBLIC (aka OLD WEIRD AMERICA) and Nick Tosche's COUNTRY; THE TWISTED ROOTS OF ROCK AND ROLL. These books have inspired a multitude of horror stories, film ideas, and comic book projects, not the least of which my last novel CITY LONG SUFFERING.

Dock Boggs "Pretty Polly" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Boggs

Robert Johnson "Hellhound On My Trail" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson

Townes Van Zandt "Snake Mountain Blues" https://townesvanzandt.com/

Howlin' Wolf "Evil" http://www.howlinwolf.com/

John Lee Hooker "Burnin' Hell" http://www.johnleehooker.com/

Hank Williams "Alone And Forsaken" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams

Eddie Noack "Psycho" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Noack

The Louvin Brothers "Knoxville Girl" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Louvin_Brothers

Friday, July 19, 2013

King Vulture's Sound Attack 7.19.13; Detroit Edition

It is a shameful failure of government that a major American city has had to file bankruptcy. I'm not going to get all political here, I just want to say my heart goes out to all the people in Detroit who's lives will be negatively affected by this nonsense. Detroit is called the Motor City, but it could just as well be called Music City, with it's deep rich and varied musical history. Let's sample a bit of the awesome that is Detroit Rock City!

MC5...Kick Out The Jams