John Lee Hooker
Photography by Rick McGinnis
“Hooker had a fierce dignity that no number of drunk white girls putting on his white hat while taking pictures with him could undermine. Actually, it’s easy to make fun of white blues fans, but they’re the people who kept artists like Hooker in guitar strings and white hats until Carlos Santana and Bonnie Raitt saw fit to give him a big hit record and a reliable royalties contract.”
John Lee Hooker backstage at the Diamond Club in Toronto, 15th September 1987.