John Lee Hooker

From the Shadow of the Blues

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a powerful, moving memoir from the son of blues legend John Lee Hooker. As a teenager, junior opened his fatherâ s shows, but drug addiction led to several decades in and out of prison. Emerging sober and finding the Lord, he had a successful career as a Grammy-nominated blues artist before becoming a minister serving prisons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781538186237
• ISBN-10: 1538186233
• Artikelnr.: 71244599

Autorenporträt

John Lee Hooker

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: Soledad Prison
Part One: Growing up in Detroit
Chapter 1 Family and Early Fights
Chapter 2 Money, Clothes, and Drugs
Chapter 3 Heroin, Prostitutes, and First Arrest as an Adult
Chapter 4 Wayne County Jail
Part Two: Cult Drug Program and Incarceration
Chapter 5 The Synanon Cult
Chapter 6 Jackson State Prison and Cassady Lake
Chapter 7 California: Crimes, Heists, and the Con Game
Part Three: Music, Prisons, and Con Games
Chapter 8 Canadian Tour and Prison
Chapter 9 Marie's Overdose and Santa Rita Jail
Chapter 10 California Rehabilitation Center
Chapter 11 On the Run
Chapter 12 Back in CRC, Solitary at Chino, and Gilroy
Chapter 13 Boxing at Conservation Camps
Chapter 14 The Con in Detroit: I'm Shot
Part Four: Redemption and Falls
Chapter 15 Back in Oakland, I Turn to the Lord
Chapter 16 My First Fall
Chapter 17 My Band in Redwood City and Second Marriage
Chapter 18 My Father's Death and My Third and Final Fall
Part Five: From the Blues to the Good News
Chapter 19 Musical Success
Chapter 20 My New Life in Ministry
Chapter 21 Singing about the Lord
Chapter 22 Sharing Love and Life in Germany
Acknowledgments
About the Author