Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 456

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MUSIC--BLUES.) HOOKER, JOHN LEE Real Blues. John Lee Hooker Live at the Apollo. One Night Only. Halloween. Poster, 22 x 17 inches printed black on red paper; linen backed; faint creases where folded; two small archival paper repairs; one in the center, one at the bottom edge. New York: High Wind, 1970
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John Lee Hooker (1917-2001) was one of the last of the old time blues guitar players. Born near Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1917 to a sharecropper family, John Lee Hooker moved to Detroit in the early 1940's and by 1948 had scored his first number-one jukebox hit and million-seller, "Boogie Chillun." His unique driving, syncopated style in "Boogie Chillen" (sic) and "Boom Boom" inspired many other songwriters, notably "Spirit in the Sky," the "jesus-freak" hit by Norman Greenbaum.