Podcast appearances and mentions of John Lee Hooker

The new episode of Blues is the Truth is up now and it is another one of those shows that just feels good to put together and even better to listen back to. Hosted by Ian McHugh, this week is all about letting the music do its thing, with the regular features ticking along and plenty of moments that stop you in your tracks. There is a brilliant spread of music this time from Tad Robinson, Emma Wilson, The Greaseland All Stars, Monster Mike Welch, Buddy Whittington, Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, Del Bromham, Tim Aves and Wolfpack, The Hoax, Chad Strenz, The Vibrationists, The Notting Hillbillies, Guitar Shorty, John Lee Hooker, Rock Candy Funk Party, Little Walter, Royal Enfield, Mary Lane, Junior Wells, Charlie Musselwhite, Steve Howell and the Mighty Men, Angela Strehli, Chuck Jackson's Big Bad Blues Band and Lil' Red and the Rooster. It is a mix that moves easily between roots, soul, grit and groove, with every track chosen for a reason. If you fancy a couple of hours in good company with some great music, this one is well worth your time. Stick it on, turn it up a little and enjoy.

"This is our second Christmas show of 2025. We are giving more trivia and history for many of your favorite songs. It is quite a list."

"NOTE. This show is being posted a week early due to our Holiday travel. Enjoy two shows this week. This is our traditional end-of-year show were we give one last tip of the hat to the musicians who passed in 2025. "

"This is the first show of our annual Christmas double header. We did a show years back that looked at the history and trivia of classic Christmas Carols. For these shows we chose a whole bunch of songs we did not cover in that previous show. Get ready for a lot of information about your favorite songs of the season."

"We have broken down the meaning of American Pie and Creeque Alley and now it its time for We Didnt Start the Fire from Billy Joel. Listen closely. We go pretty quick."

"The The Office of the US Trade Representative has released their 2024 Piracy Report listing the notorious markets for counterfeiting and piracy. The practice is alive and well. This report dedicated an entire section just to music. We will tell you what it said."

"This is our annual Thanksgiving show. Thanksgiving is celebrated in many counties other than the United States. We will tell you the list and and how the people celebrate. Plus play songs about Thanksgiving food."

“He was one of the first Black independent record producer of the postwar era — and nobody knew.” That's the spark Marsha Music brings into this powerful Detroit Is Different conversation as she unravels the epic, unsung story of her father, Joe Von Battle — the man who recorded Reverend C.L. Franklin, who cut Aretha's first records, and who captured the raw blues heartbeat of Black Detroit before Motown ever learned to walk. Through laughter, testimony, and hard truth, Marsha paints a living portrait of migration from Macon to Black Bottom, of a father who “refused to ever work for another man,” and of a city built by people who “carried their music wherever they went.” She shares how tuberculosis quarantines, foundry labor, postwar factory shifts, and the destruction of Hastings Street shaped — and scarred — her family's journey. But she also gives us the beauty: John Lee Hooker sleeping on their couch, Kenny Burrell's first recording happening behind the record-shop glass, and the way the Franklin sermons were rushed to the Guardian Building to be broadcast across the country on CKLW. Marsha doesn't just talk history — she makes it breathe. She shows how the past explains the present: why the rebellion still echoes, why Detroit sound can't be separated from Detroit struggle, and why honoring “the people who built this place with their hands and their voices” is the key to our cultural future. Detroit is Different is a podcast hosted by Khary Frazier covering people adding to the culture of an American Classic city. Visit www.detroitisdifferent.com to hear, see and experience more of what makes Detroit different. Follow, like, share, and subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes, Google Play, and Sticher. Comment, suggest and connect with the podcast by emailing info@detroitisdifferent.com

"Video may have killed the radio star but streaming and individual choices in music killed the video. Paramount Global has begun shutting down Mtv channels in Europe and reports are that soon it will come to the United States. Mtv is 44 and it looks like it may not make it to 45. "

It's back to business this week on Blues is the Truth with host Ian McHugh guiding you through another two hours of the finest blues on the planet. All the regular features are here, and the music is top shelf from start to finish. You'll hear from Robert Cray, Hubert Dorigatti and Jason Ricci, Beaux Gris Gris and the Apocalypse, David Sinclair Four, Emma Wilson, Anthony Geracci, Larkin Poe, Chris Corcoran, Ian Parker, and Chuck Jackson's Big Bad Blues Band. Plus The Teskey Brothers, The Cashbox Kings, Buddy Guy, Mighty Sam McClain, Stevie Watts Organ Trio with Alice Armstrong, Kenny Neal, John Lee Hooker, Albert Castiglia, Fran McGilivray and Mike Burke, Steel Union, Fleetwood Mac, Robert Johnson, Jerry Portnoy and the Streamliners, Bob Stroger and the Headcutters, and Dominic Shoemaker. It's the real sound of the blues – no gimmicks, no filler, just pure feeling. Dive in and tell us what you think of this week's picks!

Here is my music podcast of Bluesland November 6, 2025 with the music of William Clarke, John Lee Hooker, George Thorogood, Muddy Waters, Sue Foley, Tinsley Ellis and more. Click on the picture/link and dance up a storm!

"At least three record companies have extended million dollar contracts to people who create AI music. The US Copyright office has said it will begin extending protection those who use AI as a tool. The PROs will extend licensing. We will tell you what is going on."

Jerome presents historical rock, roots and blues events that occurred in the month of November in years gone by. Podcast includes, in order of appearance, tracks by Jerry Lee Lewis, Slim Harpo, Fats Domino, Johnnie Ray, John Lennon, The Who, Rolling Stones, The Band, Milli Vanilli, Link Ray, Robert Johnson, Kokomo Arnold, Mississippi John Hurt, Big Joe Turner, Sharon Jones, Billie Forrester, Carl Perkins, Tampa Red, Bill Haley, Johnny Horton, Eva Cassidy , Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, Carey Bell, Joe Hill Louis, Sylvester Weaver, Howlin Wolf, Nick Drake, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Pink Floyd. Size: 130 MB (136,790,330 bytes) Duration: 1:11:19

"The number changes, but as of the writing of this description, only 1883 songs have topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart including all its earlier versions. This week back in 1990, the first rap song topped the chart. That got me wondering how many other firsts and other interesting facts surround the top spot. Here is a list."

It's been one of those weeks where the blues feels especially right — a little late getting this one out, but trust us, it's worth the wait. The new episode of Blues is the Truth, hosted by Ian McHugh and proudly sponsored by the Tuesday Night Blues Jam at the Rising Sun, Isleworth, takes you deep into the heart of the music we love. This week, we journey from the smoky Chicago clubs of Hounddog Taylor and the Houserockers to the modern soul of Tedeschi Trucks Band and Vanessa Collier. Along the way you'll hear legends and rising stars side by side — Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Duke Robillard, Doug MacLeod, and Dave Weld and the Imperial Flames all take their turn in the spotlight. But there's more than just big names. There's the raw, heartfelt playing of Hubert Dorigatti and Roly Platt, the pure energy of the Paul Cook Blues Band featuring Katie Bradley, the groove-laden sound of Mumbo Jumbo, and the always inspired work from Zoe Schwarz, Rob Koral and Friends. Add to that Pierre Lacoque's Mississippi Heat, Boy Green, Bon Temps Rouler Sessions, and The Steady Rollin' Revue — and you've got a show that runs from the deep roots of the blues to its ever-evolving present. There's gig news, the regular features you love, and a little bit of that late-night magic that only the blues can bring.

Here is my Bluesland music podcast from October 23, 2025. Included is the music of Bo Diddley, pictured, John Lee Hooker, Ronnie Baker Brooks, D.K.Harrell, Bonnie Raitt, Sue Foley, Ray Charles and more. Click on the link/picture and enjoy. Art of Bo by Brian Kramer. Thanks Brian.

Often over the years, this tune has conjured up a very specific gig memory for Floodsters.It dates back to a weekend when the band was invited to the top of West Virginia's Snowshoe Mountain to be part of a rather swank do (“a wine and cheese affair,” as the late Joe Dobbs liked to call such jobs).We were on a stage under a huge event tent on the grounds of Snowshoe ski resort in Pocahontas County. The summer evening breeze was sweet. The glasses were tinkling. Then, toward the end of the night, a jolly gypsy troupe of motorcyclists rolled and crashed the party.We didn't know what would happen next. For a moment there, it looked to some of us like that edgy turning point in a Tarantino picture.But just as suddenly, the guys in leather and the guys in suits started mingling together, laughing, drinking, swapping stories. Deep in The Flood's memory banks to this day are images of that eclectic crowd of bankers and bikers singing along as one on this song. “Ohhhhh, MAma! Ain't you gonna miss you best friend nowww!”About the SongAs reported in an earlier Flood Watch article, Bob Dylan's “Down in the Flood” was one of many songs that would fill the world's first great bootleg albums, like the unforgettable Great White Wonder, which made the rounds from 1969 onward. (Nearly all those tracks later were officially released by Columbia Records as The Basement Tapes.)It turns out that “Down In The Flood” (also known as “Crash on the Levee”) evolved during a specific 1967 jam session at the Woodstock, NY, in the house that the guys dubbed “Big Pink.”As The Band's Robbie Robertson remembers it, at that session Bob and the boys started fiddling with an old John Lee Hooker song called “Tupelo Blues,” about the historically devastating 1927 Mississippi River flood. That tune apparently triggered Dylan's memories of another song, one from his repertoire in the early years, called “James Alley Blues,” based on a 1927 Richard “Rabbit” Brown recording. Significantly, that song uses the phrase “sugar for sugar, salt for salt,” a line that would find its way into Bob's own lyric.For more on the song's history, click here to read that earlier article.Our Latest Take on the TuneBob Dylan once famously spoke in another 1960s song about “a thousand telephones that don't ring.” But that's hardly a problem for us in our new millennium. On the contrary, we're all walking around with phones in our pockets that are apt to sound off at the most inopportune moments. Like in the middle of this track from last week's rehearsal when Sam St. Clair's phone chimes in. But our Sam's an especially cool lad, so you'd that expect even his phone's ringtone would contribute something special. And it does. Wait for it: at 02:43, a nifty xylophone audition at mid-song!More Bobby? Step Right Up!The Flood does a lot of Bob Dylan tunes, of course. We even have a special playlist of them that we put together for a Dylan birthday observance a few years ago. Click below to read all about it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

"The NOW CDs, as they are often called, started in the UK in 1998 with Richard Branson. They were a hit out of the gate, each crafted to a specific formula. They are a professionally made mix tape. We have the full history and a good bit of trivia about the series."