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- <title>
- Sep. 17, 1990: Crying The Blues
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 17, 1990 The Rotting Of The Big Apple
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 85
- Crying the Blues
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- <body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> 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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- </body>
- </article>
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