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- PEOPLE, Page 85Crying the Blues
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- By EMILY MITCHELL/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- When the blues grab hold, you can't shake them loose. That
- may be because, as JOHN LEE HOOKER says, they were "the first
- thing on the planet. When woman and man were born, then you had
- the blues." He gets them onstage and wears dark glasses "to
- keep people from seeing the tears." With a best-selling album
- and benefit gigs in New York City and Chicago this fall,
- Hooker, 70, is "bringing blues up from under the carpet." One
- of his favorite guitars, which usually resides in Mississippi's
- Delta Blues Museum, was built of cypress from Muddy Waters'
- home, and Hooker feels "like I'm playing part of him." The dark
- line down the instrument represents the Father of Waters, the
- Ol' Man River near whose shores the blues were born.
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