Masters of the Country Blues: John Lee Hooker and Furry Lewis is a documentary film which shows the history and music of two of blues music's greatest artists. John Lee Hooker was a blues singer-songwriter and guitarist who was born in Mississippi. A son of a sharecropper, he rose to fame with his own unique take on the blues, with boogie-woogie piano and driving rhythm, and his "talkin blues" style of playing. Furry Lewis was also born in Mississippi, but grew up in Memphis, becoming a blues musician in the 1920s, until he grew tired of the road and took a job a street sweeper in 1922. He kept that job until his retirement in 1966, when he returned to music, bringing the old-time blues to the folk blues revival of the 1960s. This documentary film features rare footage of both men performing, showing off the signature styles which the pioneered. See how Hooker laid the foundation for rock n' roll, and how Lewis brought blues together with ragtime and early 20th century ballads in Masters of the Country Blues: John Lee Hooker and Furry Lewis.moreless
