Review: Amyb on John Lee Hooker Jr.
AmyB checked out the John Lee Hooker Jr. show on Saturday night at Sticky Fingerz and files this report:
It was all that I expected: The John Lee Hooker Jr. show was all about dancing, drinking and booty shaking Saturday night At Sticky Fingerz.I spoke with him before his show, where he was hocking his new CDs, and yes, the resemblance to Dad is striking. I introduced myself, and he asked for my business card. It was quite dark in there, and I found out later I had accidentally given him a Cupid’s lingerie business card. Hope he didn’t get the wrong idea. Too late now.I missed Charlotte Taylor’s opening set. She said it went great, and I wish that I could’ve seen her band on a bigger stage. Pub or Perish was going on at the Peabody, Hotel and I missed them by just a few minutes.Backing up Hooker the younger was a really excellent, on-time,. smokin’ group four young guys: bass, guitar, keys, drums. I could almost say that I was more impressed by them than Hooker, himself. He loyally did covers like “Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,” That’s where, in my Jet Li-acrobatic-dance merriment accidentally kicked a lady’s beer out of her hand. Whoever you were, please come find me, I owe you two. And a shot.The audience trickled in slowly, making the dance floor full by the end of the show, and the ladies were given the ogle-eye and a little mini-serenade if they ventured to the front.Culturally relevant and delightfully entertaining, and somehow I felt like I was able to see, at least, the next best thing to John Lee Hooker himself. - AmyB
