Born on this day – John Lee Hooker:

John Lee Hooker

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001

August in music history - David Bowie, Fiona Joy Hawkins, and more:

I’m John Lee Hooker by John Lee Hooker (1959)

Ashes To Ashes by David Bowie (1980)

Mystical America by Laura Sullivan (2004)

Blue Dream by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2008)

August by Amy Lauren (2010)

Moments from the Life Stories of Strangers Part One by The Luminous World Orchestra (2013)

Transformation by Sherry Finzer & Darin Mahoney (2013)

The Flowers Suite by Barbara Hills (2018)

I’m John Lee Hooker

Album by John Lee Hooker,

released August 1959.

Exact release date unknown.

Track list: Dimples; Hobo Blues; I’m So Excited; I Love You Honey; Boogie Children; Little Wheel; I’m In The Mood; Maudie; Crawlin’ King Snake; Every Night; Time Is Marching; Baby Lee.

 

Ashes To Ashes

Song by David Bowie,

released August 1, 1980.

Mystical America

Album by Laura Sullivan,

released August 1, 2004.

Track list: America’s Stonehenge; Chaco Canyon; Coral Castle; The Bighorn Medicine Wheel; Tongass Islands; The Serpent Mound; Red Rock Ridge; Pictograph Cave; The Heavener Runestone; Sedona; Hawaiian Islands; Mt. Shasta (Arrangement of the Moonlight Sonata).

 

Blue Dream

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released August 1, 2008.

Track list: Contemplating; Sunrise At Ularu; Samite’s Interlude (Fiona Joy Hawkins & Samite Mulondo); Song Phonique; Indigo Interlude; The Void; Turquoise Interlude (Fiona Joy Hawkins & Philip Aaberg); Voice of Angels; Cobalt Interlude; Prelude to a Painting; The Midnight Interlude; Moving On; Azure Interlude; Somewhere.

 

August

Album by Amy Lauren,

released August 1, 2010.

Track list: I’ll Follow You; Travel This River; Fireflies; The Distance; Fly Away; Road to Allay; The Rain Came Down; Sunset Serene; August; Keeper of Light; Resolution; Summer’s End.

Moments from the Life Stories of Strangers Part One

Album by The Luminous World Orchestra,

conducted by Steven Chesne,

released August 1, 2013.

Track list: Invocation; For When the Love Will Rain Down Upon You; Yorkietown; Flicker of the Glistening; Glory Story #2; Coaxed to Grow; Morning Hocket; Change, Your Oldest Friend; Lumiere Du Soleil.

 

Transformation

Album by Sherry Finzer & Darin Mahoney,

released August 1, 2013.

Track list: Alger St; Confused; Reflection; Early Spring; Joplin; White Sky In November; Jane’S Song; The Door.

 

The Flowers Suite

Album by Barbara Hills,

released August 1, 2018.

Track list: Love-In-A-Mist; Among Lilies; Through Iris Halls; The First Snowdrop; When Cherry Blossoms Fall; On Hawkweed Bank; Sweet William; Forget-Me-Nots; Creeping Buttercup; Where Heather Grows; Hedgerow Walk; Canyons of the Black Tulip.

On this day in music history - Don't Look Back, Fallen, and Centered

Don’t Look Back by John Lee Hooker (1997)

Fallen by Evanescence (2003)

Centered by Sherry Finzer & Karasvana (2022)

 

Don’t Look Back

Album by John Lee Hooker,

released March 4, 1997.

Track list: Dimples; The Healing Game; Ain't No Big Thing; Don't Look Back; Blues Before Sunrise; Spellbound; Travellin' Blues; I Love You Honey; Frisco Blues; Red House; Rainy Day.

Fallen

Album by Evanescence,

released March 4, 2003.

Track list: Going Under; Bring Me to Life; Everybody's Fool; My Immortal; Haunted; Tourniquet; Imaginary; Taking Over Me; Hello; My Last Breath; Whisper.

 

Centered

Album by Sherry Finzer & Karasvana,

released March 4, 2022.

Track list: Music of the Spheres; Sacred Spiral; Encircling the Illusion.

On this day in movie history - Warming by the Devil's Fire (2003)

Warming by the Devil's Fire

documentary directed and written by Charles Burnett,

part 4 of the documentary series The Blues,

produced by Martin Scorsese,

was released in the United States on October 1, 2003.

Additional music by Stephen James Taylor.

Cast:

Tommy Redmond Hicks, Nathaniel Lee Jr., Carl Lumbly, Ivy Cassel, Frances Horton White, Susan McWilliams, Tommie Tc Carter, Goodman. Wille, Colleen White, Vasti Jackson, Nathaniel Lee Sr., Ted Davis, Ilona W. Wilkes, Jay R. Unger, Big Bill Broonzy, Sam Chatmon, Elizabeth Cotton, Ida Cox, Gary Davis, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin Hopkins, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sonny Terry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson.

On this day in movie history - Feel Like Going Home (2003)

Feel Like Going Home

documentary directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by Peter Guralnick,

part 1 of the documentary series The Blues

produced by Martin Scorsese,

was released in the United States on September 28, 2003.

Additional music by Davis Coen and John McCullough.

Cast:

Sam Carr, Toumani Diabaté, Corey Harris, John Lee Hooker, Son House, Salif Keïta, Willie King, Habib Koité, Leadbelly, Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo', Bernice Turner Pratcher, Martin Scorsese, Johnny Shines, Sharde Thomas, Ali Farka Touré, Otha Turner, Dick Waterman, Muddy Waters.

On this day in music history - The album Urban Blues, by John Lee Hooker (1967)

Urban Blues

by John Lee Hooker

was released on March 22, 1967.

Track list:

Cry Before I Go; Boom Boom Boom; Backbiters & Syndicaters; Mr. Lucky; By Own Blues; I Can't Stand To Leave You; Think Twice Before You Go; I'm Standing In Line; Hot Spring Water Pt.1; Hot Spring Water Pt.2; The Motor City Is Burning; Want Ad Blues.