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Artist: John Lee Hooker
Author: John Lee Hooker
Label: Vee-Jay
Year: 1961
On The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker.
Covers:
David Bowie [influenced guitar riff The Jean Genie; n°2 UK, top 10 NL]
Gun Club [VPRO radio session, released in '17; crediting Jeffrey Lee Pierce]
Hugo Race [on a Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute]
Legend has it that while touring the US, Hunky Dory sleeve artist George Underwood played this riff on the bus when David summed up his guitar, changed a few notes to end up with the Jean Genie's riff. Apart from this legend, Bowie's biggest influence was Bo Diddley's Oh Yea (see there).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)