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"I can hear two or three notes and I know that that's John Lee Hooker...I think that whenever they say 'true blues,' 'pure blues,' John Lee Hooker comes as close to it as anyone I've ever heard."    --B.B. King

From Clarksdale To Heaven - Remembering John Lee Hooker is a 14-track love affair about a man and his music. Working in conjunction with the John Lee Hooker family and the JLH Foundation, this first volume concentrates on the overwhelming influence he had on British musicians of the 1960s-Jeff Beck, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, Mick Taylor, Gary Moore, Gary Brooker-all are present here. It was the British musicians of the '60s, after all, who reintroduced the Blues to America via their versions of songs by Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson...and John Lee Hooker.

He made acclaimed albums studded with guest appearances by famed acolytes like Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Robert Cray, Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards and others. He won four Grammys (the Oscars of the music industry) and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. He was, quite simply, John Lee Hooker.

From his birth in the hard lands of Clarksdale, Mississippi, until his death on June 21 of last year, John Lee was both an inspiration and a musical god to scores of musicians in the US and England. As a blues player music, in the words of Robert Cray, "just came out of his soul. It was true soul music." He was a true stylist, noted for his ominous lyrics, hammer-of-the-gods foot stomping, and percussive guitar playing, leading Pete Townshend to say "Without him there would be no power chord."

Blue Storm Music wanted to pay tribute to this Blues giant and the result, the first of two volumes, is From Clarksdale To Heaven — Remembering John Lee Hooker. The first volume reads like a Who's Who of British legends--Jeff Beck, Mick Taylor, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, Gary Moore, Gary Brooker, Bad Company--all of who interpret with reverence and respect the songs that made John Lee Hooker an icon. Of special interest will be a track recorded by John Lee's daughter Zakiya Hooker and who will be sharing some memories of her father in the CD's liner notes. Finally, there will be a very special bonus track - a previously unreleased version of Jimi Hendrix's "Red House" performed by John Lee Hooker with Booker T (who recorded "Green Onions").